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CHAPTER 351
Without further ado, Snow turned facing the path ahead and took off.
"Blade, step away from her for the last time." Terrence's voice broke him out of his trance.
Jareth whipped his head back to look at his brother. "Terrence, let it go. She has collapsed." No longer was his eyes cool like Astrid loved, instead they went back to their deadly calm and dull ones, mirroring the emptiness he felt on the inside.
"Good. Step away still, General Aelfdene would take her." Jareth was about refusing but then, he did not want his brother to be suspicious of him.
Slowly he got up with Astrid in his arms and walked over to where General Aelfdene stood close to his horse and handed her over to him carefully.
"We march home. The mission is complete and the hybrid, captured."
"And what about the sorceress?" Cleon asked out of the blue.
