Aery panicked when she saw Celaena, panicked even more when Rowan healed instantly. And then what Silly had said managed to catch up with her.
"Oh my god oh my god oh god oh god..." She curled into a ball sobbing. All she could think of was Ame. Poor little Ame. Made a sacrifice of herself so that the rest of the group could live.
Her hand found something, pulled it out of the mud, only to scream and chuck it away. Ame's paper-thin mask, the mouth warped into a distressed shape, the joyful amethyst stones suddenly looking for all the world like tears streaming down it.
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When Ame finally climbed the rise to Briarcliff castle, she was terribly out of breath. She ran right up to the wall of the castle before she doubled over, hands on her knees, gasping for air, making all kinds of squeaky wheezy sounds. She drew the dagger and proceeded into the castle, slowly, whirling at every tiny sound, her nerves on hyperdrive.