" Armand towed me up and Jesse hustled me away. I staggered against him, looking past his shoulder just in time to see my nightgown dance over the rim of the roof, a twirling, empty ballerina blowing away to the stars.
“That was stupid,” I said loudly.
“Too right it was.” None of Armand’s fury had left him.
“No, I mean
of you. Following me like that. You could have been killed!”
“
were doing well enough until you-did that! Went to smoke like that.”
“He couldn’t shoot smoke!”
“He could have shot the half-wit on
of him!”
“But he didn’t!” I swallowed, a lump of something sick rising in my throat. “I didn’t kill him, did I?”
Armand seemed to shrink a little. He looked back at the duke and shook his head. “No. I think you knocked him out. He’s breathing.”
“Has anyone a coat?” I asked, and found myself crumpling down to the roof, a leisurely sort of collapse. Armand grabbed me by the arm again and I managed to remain seated instead of prone.
“Dragon-girl.” Jesse was stripping off his shirt. “Bravest girl. I keep telling you to eat more. "
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