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AND HER MOTHER’S FAVORITE
Xia held her breath as she watched both fallen figures, hoping one would rise and the other would not.
Her hands clenched into fists as she lifted them to her heart.
Get up! Get up, she wished with all her might, hoping the brave figure she’d just seen stand up to a dark one had not perished.
But for the longest moment, he didn’t move, and she released the tension from her hands, letting them fall to her sides in disappointment as loss spiraled through her. It didn’t seem fair that someone so gallant and brave should be gone. Just like that.
She started to turn away, unable to keep watching such a tragedy when the Eradicator finally stirred.
Xia gasped and slapped her hands over her mouth to muffle her joy while up the hill, the man slowly dragged himse
