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The minutes bled into hours. Leta didn’t know how long she and Fiearius were in cell. She dozed off and on against the cold concrete wall, her fitful sleep punctuated with violent, vivid images from the combat ring -- the man advancing with the rusty knife, hands digging into her hair, and then Fiearius holding him down. She swore she could hear the sick crack and splintering of the man’s neck and see his lifeless eyes --

With a twitch, Leta opened her eyes and bit down on her lip to keep from crying out. It wasn’t the nightmare that awoke her, but the searing pain up her leg. Her calf was hot and throbbing, reverberating straight up to her spine. Fiearius’ shirt -- the makeshift bandage -- was already soaked clean through with blood. Thick fresh bandages and peroxide, that was what she really needed now. The knife had been filthy ...

Her fingertips reached to shakily peel back the bandages when noise reached her ears and she froze. It was the sound, muffled from inside the cell, of excitement: cheering, yelling, feet stomping, hands clapping. So the fights must have been ending. Someone in the ring was victorious, which meant someone else had just been killed …

She wondered if Fiearius heard it too. He was still beside her, leaning against the wall, but he was oriented to the other side of the cell. Half of his face was in shadow, turned away from her, and he was silent.

The beginning and end of Caelum Lex Chapter 25 . What happens in between?! Maybe you should read it and find out.

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The minutes bled into hours. Leta didn’t know how long she and Fiearius were in cell. She dozed off and on against the cold concrete wall, her fitful sleep punctuated with violent, vivid images from the combat ring -- the man advancing with the rusty knife, hands digging into her hair, and then Fiearius holding him down. She swore she could hear the sick crack and splintering of the man’s neck and see his lifeless eyes --

With a twitch, Leta opened her eyes and bit down on her lip to keep from crying out. It wasn’t the nightmare that awoke her, but the searing pain up her leg. Her calf was hot and throbbing, reverberating straight up to her spine. Fiearius’ shirt -- the makeshift bandage -- was already soaked clean through with blood. Thick fresh bandages and peroxide, that was what she really needed now. The knife had been filthy ...

Her fingertips reached to shakily peel back the bandages when noise reached her ears and she froze. It was the sound, muffled from inside the cell, of excitement: cheering, yelling, feet stomping, hands clapping. So the fights must have been ending. Someone in the ring was victorious, which meant someone else had just been killed …

She wondered if Fiearius heard it too. He was still beside her, leaning against the wall, but he was oriented to the other side of the cell. Half of his face was in shadow, turned away from her, and he was silent.

The beginning and end of Caelum Lex Chapter 25 . What happens in between?! Maybe you should read it and find out.

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