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hurt from my tone.
That surprised me. “I’m not sure where he is.” His expression
turned distant. I imagined he was thinking about his brother. “I’m
concerned about him.”
    I was surprised he cared about anyone
at all—he was such a horror. He didn’t have feelings. It all must
have been a ploy to seduce me. But, then, why would he bother with
a seduction when he could easily take me by force?
    Some of the community members were
trying to lift the others over the barrier now, but it seemed
endless in height. The lights of their torches flickered in the
night illuminating their surroundings. Others were running their
hands along its smooth surface presumably to see if they could find
a break in the length. But, the shield appeared to continue on
forever.
    I was worried that the construction
might collapse and then they could overtake me. As I surveyed the
terrain of fallen trees and dead men on the ground, I began to
wonder who I was more afraid of—Aver or the community members. But,
as my thoughts went in that direction, suddenly the shield
disappeared completely. The men who were touching the shield fell
right through and onto the ground. The others looked stunned for a
moment before President Tratzel yelled out the order, “Get
her!”
    My body tensed so tight that I was
surprised it didn’t go into spasms just from fear alone.
    “ Oops, the spell broke,”
Aver said humorously as he put his hand on my shoulder
lackadaisically. His gestures were so absurd, but there was no time
to analyze his ways. Everything was happening too fast.
    But, then his demeanor changed. He
said, “Here’s our exit cue.” In a quick transition, Aver scooped me
up at once into his arms and took off running through the dark
woods. He was so much faster than the others. I was so stunned that
I didn’t know what to do. It was just unfathomable how ill fated my
predicament had become.
    The community followed behind us,
climbing over fallen trees and wreckage and weaving around debris
as Aver leaped through the air gracefully, running full speed. Some
of the faster men shot at us. I heard the loud sounds of mercury
streaming past my head.
    Aver was physically masterful. From
his quick dodging of bullets, it seemed almost as if he had eyes in
the back of his head. He didn’t, but he was certainly superhuman.
It was like he detected the streams of mercury before they even
reached us.
    I wasn’t certain, but it sounded like
Aver chanted a spell in Latin. At once, the liquid bullets reversed
direction midair, moving back and away from us.
    Suddenly, I heard screams of terror
from behind. Aver stopped and turned to look. From his arms, I
strained my eyes to get a sharp focus through the natural setting.
To my astonishment, I saw the streams of mercury had flowed
together into a river of silver liquid that gushed out and down to
the ground away from us. The moon and stars overhead lit it in a
bright shimmer.
    The toxic river expanded and rushed
over the men filling their mucous membranes and then solidifying
within their bodies. It looked like the poison filled up their
innards and poured out of their noses, eyes, and ears only to
become hard and shiny like polished metal.
    The men who were in the back of the
crowd, including Mazen Tratzel, escaped to the sides of the onrush.
Many of the unlucky victims appeared frozen in place. I wanted to
scream, but I controlled myself. The sight was horrific.
    The men’s bodies looked deformed with
the solidified metal pushing various parts of the skin outwards in
massive lumps and protrusions. Their mouths were stretched so wide
that they broke open.
    Though utterly appalled, I was
impressed in a sense with Aver’s genius. The idea of combining the
mercury streams of the men’s own ammunition to bring them to their
deaths was brilliant. Though, as much as they deserved it, and
would have done the same thing to me given the opportunity, I
wished he had used a more humane method to stop