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"I am not," Sylvia spat.
"You can't help it. Nothing can break the bond.In your deepest heart you know
that. And asMaiden of all the witches, and in the name of Hellewise
Hearth-Woman, I adjure you:remove your
spell from this boy."
It was the strangest thing-but it didn't seem tobe Aradia who said it. Oh, it
was Aradia's voice, allright, Maggie thought, and it was Aradia standingthere.
But at that moment she seemed to be fusedwith another form-a sort of shining
aura allaround her. Someone who was part of her, butmore than she was.
It looked, Maggie thought dizzily, like a tallwoman with hair as pale as
Sylvia's and largebrown eyes.
Sylvia gasped out, "Hellewise ... ."Her own violeteyes were huge and
frightened.
Then she just stood frozen.
Hunter was ranting on. Maggie could hear himvaguely, but all she could see
was Sylvia, the shudders that ran through Sylvia's frame, the heavingof
Sylvia's chest.
Appeal to their true hearts,Maggie thought.
"Sylvia," she said. "I believe in you."
The violeteyes turned toward her, amazed.
"I don't care what you did to Miles; Maggie said."I know you're confused-I
know you were unhappy. But now you have a chance to make upfor it. You can do
something-somethingimportanthere. Something that will change the world."
"Rivers of blood," Hunter was raving. "And noone to stop us. We won't stop
with enslaving thehumans.The witches are our enemies now. Thinkof the power
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you'll feel when you drink their lives!"
"If you let this Wild Power be killed, you 'I! beresponsible for the darkness
coming," Maggie said."Only you. Because you're the only one who canstop
itright now."
Sylvia put a trembling hand to her cheek. Shelooked as if she were about to
faint.
"Do you really want to go down in history as the
one who destroyed the world?" Maggie said.
"As Maiden of all the witches ..."Aradia said.And another, deepervoiceseemed
to follow on
hers like anecho,As Mother of all the witches..."And in the name of Hellewise
. .
And in the name of my children.. .
"As you are a Hearth-Woman ..."
As you are my own daughter, a true Hearth
Woman...
"I adjure you!"Aradia said, and her voice rangout in double tones so clearly
that it actuallystopped Hunter in midtirade.
It stopped everyone. For an instant there was absolutely no sound in the
courtyard. Everyone wa:looking around to see where the voice had come from.
Sylvia was simply staring at Aradia.
Then the violet eyes shut and her entire bodyshivered in a sigh.
When she spoke it was on the barest whisper of breath, and only someone as
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close as Maggie wa:could have heard her.
"As a daughter of Hellewise, I obey."
And then she was reaching for Delos's arm, ancDelos was reaching toward her.
And Hunter wa: shouting wildly, but Maggie couldn't make out thewords. She
couldn't make out Sylvia's words, ei.ther, but she saw her lips move, and she
saw the slender pale fingers clasp Delos's wrist.
And saw the lance coming just before it piercecSylvia's heart.
Then,as if everything came into focus at once
she realized what Hunter had been shouting in i
voice so distorted it was barely recognizable. "Kill her! Kill her!"
And that's just what they'd done, Maggie thoughther mind oddly clear, evenasa
wave of horror andpity seemed to engulf her body. The lance wen right through
Sylvia. It knocked her backwardaway from Delos, and blood spurted all over
thefront of Sylvia's beautiful green dress.
And Sylvia looked toward Hunter Redfern andsmiled. This time Maggie could
read the words orher lips.
"Too late."
Delos turned. There was red blood on his whiteshirthis own, Maggie realized.
He'd tried to getin the way of the guard's killing Sylvia. But nowhe had eyes
only for his great-grandfather.
"It stopshere!"
She had seen the blue fire before, but never likethis. The blast was like a
nuclear explosion. Itstruck where Hunter Redfern was standing with hismost
loyal nobles around him, and then it shot upinto the sky in a pillar of
electric blue. And it wenton and on, from sky to earth and back again, as
ifthe sun were falling in front of the castle.
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Maggie held Sylvia gently. Or at least, she knelt by her and tried to hold
herasbest she could without disturbing the piece of broken spear that wasstill
lodged in Sylvia's body.
It was all over. Where Hunter Redfern and hismost trusted nobles had been,
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