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Chapter 21 - "Because anything less is not going to work."

As soon as she had been stabbed they had fled, and left her alone, shoving her into the water to escape. Evette climbed upon the ice once more, gritting her teeth at the dagger still through her gut. Evette breathed heavily as she stood, and she tore the dagger out of her body, before she threw it to the floor and she hunched over a little. She breathed heavily as she ran her trembling hands over her wet hair and face, before she straightened to go find them once more.

A mere stab wound would not deter her from seeking them out again.

Romulus winnowed in beside her within mere moments. He looked her over quickly. "I think I'm jealous someone else got to stab you." He mused to her. "Jealous that you even let them stab you over me. How did they stab you?"

"I was a little distracted." She replied, as he fell in step with her as the boats battled behind them both. She glanced over at him. "Can you do something for me?" She began slowly, and he turned and raised a brow at her. "Get rid of Emory so I can grab my aunt alone."

"Consider it done." Romulus gave her a nod, and he glanced down at her lightly bleeding wound. "Are you going to be...okay? You won't bleed out and die, right?"

"I won't die." She offered him with a shrug.

The two of then separated once more, and Evette yanked her sword from it's place in the ground, and she inserted herself back into the fighting. Evette searched the battlefield for her aunt as she fought herself through the mounds of Fae and Fey.

Though, it didn't take her as long as she thought it would to find her. Evette saw that she was about to move on from the Fae and humans she had just killed. Swiftly, Evette pulled out one of her many daggers, and tossed it through the air. It embedded itself in her aunt's shoulder. She cried out at the hit, and a shaky hand moved to pull it out, before she faced her. Evette slammed her sword into the ground beside her.

"You're not down!" Dulcamara voiced her confusion, shouting across at her. Evette just wanted her dead and to be over and done with this war so she could sit down for a rest, and to stop the bleeding of her stomach. So, she raised her hands, but her aunt was faster and thrust her hands for her, and a wall of fire raced for her. Evette slammed her palms together, and a wall of ice formed in front of her to protect her from the flames.

Once the flames died down, Evette thrust her hand outwards and a gust of air crashed through the wall of ice, shattering it, and then the air lifted her aunt up and threw her through several people who were fighting each other.

Evette then moved to advance on her aunt, who threw herself upwards and charged for Evette. Before Evette could even lift her hands, she was being tackled to the floor, and she cried out as her aunt dug her elbow into her wound. Evette reached for her aunt's blonde hair, and she tugged on it hard, before she pulled her off of her by it.

Evette stood and Dulcamara also scrambled to stand, and she grabbed hold of Evette, and then they were suddenly winnowing.

And then they were falling through the air above fast. They clawed at one another as they free fell. Evette managed to elbow her aunt in the face and push her face away from her, making her yelp. But her aunt's grip stayed on her. "Are you fucking crazy!" Evette screamed through the air at her aunt, still trying to shake her off.

"If I die here today, so do you!" Her aunt yelled through the air back at her, her grip getting tighter, and then her aunt grabbed onto her face.

"Evette, is that you and Dulcamara falling through the air?" Macaria's shout of alarm rang through her mind.

"Yes."

Evette lifted her chin, and her aunt was pulled back from her violently as they grew closer to the ground, and she was about to winnow away, when flames raced for her through the air. Evette used her powers to throw herself through the air, gaining more height upon Dulcamara, and then she crashed right into an attor, it's claws crabbing onto her.