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Literature

New Hope - Two Fates Combine -- Chapter 2

Dying Embers and Caring Feathers Sam’s back slammed into the cold concrete wall. If he’d noticed the tail coming at him sooner, the hybrid could have avoided the thick claws that were now firmly hooked into the down of his wings. Hot breath and a fresh scent of rot washed over him. As he looked up, the feathers on his neck prickled as his pupils thinned to slits. Eyes wide and jaw slack, he stared down the gaping, mutilated maw of a rabid Earthen looming above him. Open wide and ready to kill. The Earthen let out a piercing screech and lunged. Sam caught its jaws mere inches away from his neck. His arms trembled with the strain of keeping the Earthen away as it twisted and trashed, trying to break his grip. In his peripheral a streak of gray flashed by in a blink, tearing the Earthen away with it. The blade’s owner, a charcoal gray Drakin with short black horns that wrapped just under his jaw, was standing by the wall opposite Sam. The gray Drakin let out a shaky breath