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Dao, Bran, and Hawk have on Shade skins. Dao asks Bran if he is scared. Hawk tells
Dao to take it easy on Bran, he's not had it easy. Dao just wants Bran to help them
get the throne back. As night falls, they will make their move. Ichi feels it is
time to create his world. A dream. A thought. A trap. Windy tells Turo he is not
sure which way to go. Turo calls him a Great Wizard but Windy tells him he is not
so great. Windy leads the way but his eyes turn white and he stops. Turo holds him
from behind. Dao, Bran, and Hawk climb the walls. Ichi's garden: Windy and Turo see
an energy ball...Windy calls it a door. Ichi welcomes Windblade to his world. Turo
tries to keep Windy back, telling Ichi he cannot have him. The ball has Ichi's face
and tells Turo there is nothing he can do. His essence is floating into Ichi's realm
now, a place he created beyond this orb. Turo's eyes flood tears, "No...he...he's
mine. He's mine...." Windy glubs his way in the other world, naked in his spirit.
He seems to be in a black sea but finds his way to the surface and air. Ichi floats
above him, telling him that he allowed it and calls Windy a child. Hawk tells the
others that the bond that joins Windblade to him has been severed. They climb to
a window. Hawk knows Windy was in the stinking garden. Dark lightning and flying
swords attack the trio. Sweating, they fight it all. Dark faces with lightning eyes
seem to wield the swords. Ichi takes Windy's tear filled face into his hands. Windy
won't let Ichi kill him and zaps Ichi. Turo calls to Windy, "Oh, Windy, wherever
you are please hear me, know that I'm with you, always. Draw your strength from me."
Turo is crying lots of tears. Hawk and the two boys are hacking their way through
the dark ones toward the garden and the palace halls. Windblade has a pentagram as
a cape clasp and a cape, feeling a bit more equal. Windy tells him it pays to have
friends. Ichi says, "Snot nosed little flea." Ichi's bolts pass through
Windy. Hawk fights, "Hold on to Windy, Turo, I'm here. And there's going to
be hell to pay!" Windblade comes back to life in Turo's arms. Ichi is trapped
in the orb, yelling at Windblade to come back, calling him a flea. Windy traps him
in his own little world, making the orb vanish. Windy is fine thanks to his friends.
Dao calls him a little twit. Hawk says, "Yea but he's my little twit."
Windy giggles, "Oh Hawk." Turo says, "Missed you, Windy." Windy
thinks they can put the kingdom all back and tells Bran so. Bran smiles. Next page:
Hawk Erickson..Elflord...Elfbane...King of the Empire. |