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have suffered because of our separation."
"My friends..." I gestured to their bodies, "I want their lives returned to
them, and I want them to have free passage from this place. This is not their
affair. It's never been their affair."
"Why? Can't you save them? Don't you have the power?"
"Then where's the harm in--?"
"You can't resurrect them, can you?" Perhaps I should not have goaded the
thing, but I had little left to lose.
it scoffed,
Mentally I sought out the air, tried to find the spark that remained in my
friends. Yet their bodies were silent of that lingering essence, cold and inert.
"Deionarra told me that I could reverse death only when the victim had died
close to me. But what she awakened in me - are you saying that was only a
fraction of my power over life and death?"
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