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  92. By Amanda Hocking

“I’m sorry I couldn’t be safe this time,” I said breathlessly, and my voice was lost in the wind.

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Uncage

Ulla

“What do we do? What do we do?” Dagny asked in a rapid whisper, and it sounded more like she was asking herself than me.

I tried to scoop up the tiny droplets of liquid that had pooled on the rough stone landing, but my hands were such a bloody mess, it was impossible, not to mention it burned like hell.

“My blood,” I realized, staring down at my hands. “It was powerful enough to get the protection spell to work.”

Dagny looked at me. “We need enough for your dagger.”

Bryn was yelling, and I looked over to see the wyrm chasing her to the edge of the cliff.

I hurried to pull out my dagger, and I ran the blade across my bloody hand, coating it as much as I could.

I lifted my head to see the wyrm pinning Bryn against the cliff’s edge. Wendy held her hands up in front of her, but she collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. Sumi was running at the wyrm, but she was still so far away.

Bryn stood her ground and faced the dragon defiantly, and I yelled her name. She closed her eyes, and the wyrm’s breath engulfed her in green flames. Within seconds, she was nothing but ash and bones.

“Ulla!” Dagny shouted. She grabbed my hand and squeezed drops of blood onto her arrows.

“We should light it, right?” Sunniva asked. “Like the spell? And killing fire with fire?”

Dagny fumbled for a match. I tore off the bottom of my shirt and wrapped my hands with fabric.

“Ulla,” Sunniva said as a match broke.

“I’m trying,” Dagny muttered, striking another match. It finally took, and as soon as the flame touched the blood on my dagger, it went up in bright purple flames.

“Ulla!” Sunniva shouted.

I looked up to see the wyrm flying straight at us. I took a running start, and I leapt off the landing with all my might. My flaming dagger raised high over my head, I stared right into the primal emerald eyes of the beast.

I drove the dagger deep into one eye, then landed roughly on the head of the wyrm as hot blood spilled down my arm. The wyrm screamed and flew erratically. The dagger was stuck in the eye, so I held on to it with both hands until the wyrm crashed hard into the ground.

I was thrown from the monster, and I rolled and bounced to a painful stop, barely stopping before the edge of the cliff.

The wind was knocked from my chest, and I gulped down the air greedily, even though it still burned my lungs. I forced myself up until I was sitting and watched the wyrm give a few half-hearted thrashes of its tail.