RedNovelChapter 486
The bees swarmed me. | was the new threat. They would killfirst and then move on to Rick. Or so they
thought. | kept swinging. The hive was still paper thin, so each swing took out a section. But | was taking sting
after sting.
My body was on fire. | felt like my skin was melting from my bones. Each sting was a new ember on the pyre that
was my broken, exhausted body. But still | kept swinging. | heard howls off in the distance, but it was the
screams that would hauntfor years to come. | thought it was the wolves at first, but then | realized whose
screams ripped through the air.
They were my screams.
The buzzing from the bees had morphed into a windstorm, but it was my screams that shook the trees. My
screams that darkened the sky. My screams that sounded like the humans idea of hell. My screams echoed
around the forest, and bounced off the trees back to me, creating this echoing chamber of terror and
desperation.
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| was being tortured, but I couldn't stop. If | stopped, Rick died. And I couldn't let down his little girl. Her face was
the only thing that keptswinging. Tiny larva were falling like acorns aroundas | attacked the hive. Their
tiny bodies hitting the ground sounded like a soft rain. The bees kept stinging; | kept swinging until | saw her.
The queen.
She was three times the size of her drones, and her stinger looked to be as long as my middle finger. Her wings
looked too weak to hold her up, thank the goddess. She vibrated angrily atas | took aim. | swung the stick,
and | was stung ten times at once. | dropped to my knees. My blood had turned to molten metal in my veins.
| screamed so loud my jaw cracked. The burning pain was blinding, but the energy that cwith it was like a
match. It ignited the surrounding air. My body, my magic, my life had whittled down to the white hot pain. My
skin must have burned away, leaving the muscle open because every breeze felt like knives.
The hive was swarming around me, pulling in tighter and tighter, trying to kill me. But they underestimated how
much power | can take in. screamed again as a bee stungin the eye. | had thought | knew pain, but that one
made my brain shut down for a minute. The fire under m, y skin was building, and | didn't know how | was going
to release it.
"Amy!" | heard Nix call, but I was burning. I could only scream. "Release it!" Release it? Release what? A had was
fire. | tried
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open my eyes, but only one opened. | could see a tired Nix, weltedand limping at the edge of the clearing
through the gaps between the bees. Megan, | could only assume, was still running with Rick's wolf. | couldn't tell.
Their pain had faded as mine took over. That thought
cleared my mind for a second. My wolves were in pain. Nix caught my gaze. "Release the fire." She
screamed at me.
"I can't." | screamed back. More bees found a bit of flesh to sting me. But the pain was starting to dissipate. It
was as if my body was stripped bare, nerves burned away.
"Yes, you can. You have the ability to do anything You have two wolves, you have magic, and you are the
strongest person | have ever met. You can do anything." Nix called tocould see her wince at every sting, but
she was able to stand still, and | didn't see how. She must have seen the confusion on my face, because she
called out. "You shut down our link. You are keeping most of the pain away from us. Just let it out."
"I don't know how." | cried back, frustration and pain warring in my system.
"Burn Amy, burn it all." She called, and it was the switch.
Between one breath and another, the fire that was under my skin exploded from my lips. The scream that had
built behind my teeth turned into a column of fire that ignited the bees and the nest alike. Bodies fell, the nest
flaked away, and the queen caught on fire. Vince's voice reached my ears past the burning.
"What do you mean you can't reach Rick? How is this fucking possible?" There was a pause. “NO!” His voice
faded as the nest burned away.
| dropped like a sack of potatoes. The remaining bees that had somehow survived were still dive bombing me,
but their stings barely registering anymore. Nix cover and she nudged herself under me. Once she was sure
I was secure, she
ran.
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