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sobeille saw her moment, and she acted quick. 

while qiao hovered precariously over the moonpool’s lip, sobeille burst forward. 

she thrust her sharp shoulder to the crone’s upended hip, shoving with so much force a grunt escaped her body. 

she seized the skull, her canines hooked between the flaring crest of both occipital bones. the greenbrier torc split with a pronounced snap —

suddenly, the skull was ripped from her teeth by qiao’s body snagging the length of rope. no no no! a sickening snap sounded as her right canine was forced loose.

the headsplitting pain nearly doubled her over.

flares of blue illuminated the cave walls. the witch’s body sent a surge of water over the moonpool’s bank, the sound of seawater pattering down on coldstone. her ears pinned as screams in a foreign tongue split from the small chasm, furiously chasing her as she fled down the tunnels. 

a dark stain of blood trickled from her jaws. sobeille escaped the cave, feeling her body’s urgent answer to the growing terror in her heart.