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them.
    Hardly above a whisper, Aver mumbled a
spell. Now the river ceased flow and dissolved into the earth
abruptly. The men’s bodies hollowed at once and collapsed to the
ground. Aver turned and ran, now at an increased pace with me in
his arms while President Tratzel fell back between some trees with
the survivors of his army.
    After some time, to my astonishment,
Aver stopped abruptly. We were a considerable distance from the
others. I couldn’t even see them now.
    Aver was breathing hard. He released
me from his arms. I stumbled backwards just a little as I caught my
balance. His perfect, strong, lean body was crouched over with his
hands on his thighs now. It looked like he was trying to catch his
breath which surprised me. I thought serpent people were nearly
infallible.
    “ Can you hear that?” He
managed to say as he looked up at me from his hunkered position.
His chest rose and fell rapidly. The early morning light broke
through the trees giving a gentle glow to his well formed
body.
    “ What?” I said. My tone was
almost irritated.
    “ The music.” A little smile
crept on his face.
    I didn’t want to admit it, but the
song playing in my mind was beautiful. It reminded me of a deeply
romantic theme song from a dome cinema show I had seen once. The
sounds made me feel like anything was possible. It made me yearn
for the lake and to my great dismay, it made me yearn for
Aver.
    He put his head back down for a moment
like he was trying to gain internal strength and then he attempted
to stand up right.
    I gasped when I saw that he had been
shot to the side of his torso near his stomach. Blood was pouring
out. The music became wild in my mind. In panic, I heard the brush
of leaves and branches breaking in the distance. Mazen and some of
his men must have reunited because I could hear the angry, familiar
sounds moving toward us.
    Aver heard them too. I wanted to run,
but he grabbed me at once into his arms, pulling me up against his
body, and kissed me like I had never been kissed. The music was so
blissful it was like the world spun around in a whole new color.
Hundreds of butterflies rushed out of my stomach. This release was
even more intense than the last.
    I was ashamed for liking the kiss,
ashamed that I didn’t fight to get away. I rationalized that my
attraction for this abomination must be genetic programming. It
seemed as if I was powerless under his spell. Not only Shaul, he
also was my soul mate. As much as I didn’t want him to be, it was a
fact.
    We both looked up in the sky at the
butterflies. So many vibrant colors. I think he was surprised too,
but Mazen and his men would overtake us soon if we didn’t run. I
thought about how much I hated President Tratzel for the horrible
dystopian society he had created and for imprisoning me.
    Why wasn’t Aver taking me and running
away? Why were we just standing there?
    Then I saw that his gaze upwards
became intense. Red light surrounded his face now. Looking away
from the butterflies, he grabbed a stick and drew into the earth a
triangle around us. He pulled out what I thought was a belt from
his waist.
    I was wrong though. What I thought was
a belt was actually a live snake! It hissed. I tried to step away,
but he grabbed me by the arm and pulled me closer to him. Then he
split the snakes head open with his bare hands and pulled out its
brain. My body tensed from fright as I heard him whisper
enchantments. And to my great horror, the butterflies above us
suddenly grew rows of sharp teeth like piranhas.
    My eyes widened. What had he
done?
    Mazen’s army was in sight now. They
made their way with their torches directly toward us.
    But, the insects flew in a swarm now
toward the president and his army. As much as I wanted Aver to stop
the men who were in my pursuit, I didn’t want them to suffer
unnecessarily anymore or even worse, die as the others had. They
had families and people who cared about them, needed
them.
    “ Stop!” I screamed at