BRIAR'S POV
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'This is incredibly stupid of you. As always.' Cora growls, her voice vibrating through my head. 'He lost his...', 'It's an act.' She cuts me off, her anger burning like an inferno inside of me. I roll my eyes so hard that I thought they'd get stuck back there, but I didn't move from where I sat on my knees, my back turned away from Fenrys' as he rested his against mine. Through our backs, I could feel his heart beating wildly still, and it's been like an hour since Column's last breath. I was hot. Incredibly so as the sun's heat started to feel like a suffocating blanket. "We should go," I say while trying my best to not look at Column's corpse. He lay where he died, and Fenrys hasn't moved him yet. He barely moved himself.
The silence has the air around us strung tight
