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somewhere safe to hide him so that they could at the
very least say their goodbyes.
    She looked over
her shoulder to see several Immortalists advancing. There, at the back, half
concealed by shadows, she saw Octal. So he wasn’t dead.
    As the group
gained on them, Scarlet saw that half of Octal’s face was badly burned. He must
have been in significant pain and yet he still wanted to harm her and Sage. It
made Scarlet so sad to think that the love between her and Sage outraged the
Immortalists so much.
    Suddenly, an
almighty crash made Scarlet leap, and a sudden spray of icy water soaked her.
She looked over her left shoulder to find that the whole side of the castle had
crumbled into the sea, causing a mighty wave to crash over them.
    She heard
screaming and looked back to see the Immortalists tumbling into the sea. They
fell so quickly they didn’t even have time to fly to safety, and as soon as
they hit the waves, the angry ocean swallowed them up.
    As the tiles
began to give way beneath her feet, Scarlet slammed her back against the wall
of the corridor and pushed Sage back with her arm. The black water churned
several feet below them. Scarlet suddenly felt as though she were balancing
precariously on the ledge of a mountain.
    The only person
left standing, on the other side of a wide chasm, was Octal. Scarlet knew that
it would take him no more than a few seconds to fly across the gap between them.
But instead, he decided to watch.
    He thinks it’s
hopeless . He thinks we’re going to die.
    “Quick,” she
said to Sage. “Before we fall into the sea.”
    Cold ocean spray
hit her face as she led him across the ledge. With every step, more of the
flooring broke off and tumbled into the ocean. Scarlet’s heart raced with
anguish. She prayed that they would make it out of the castle and to safety.
    “There,” she
said to Sage. “Just a few more steps.”
    But no sooner
had the words left her lips than the tiles beneath Sage’s feet cracked. He just
had time to look up into her eyes before the floor gave way and he plummeted
down into the blackness.
    “Sage!” Scarlet
screamed, her hand outstretched, reaching for him.
    But he was gone.
    Scarlet glanced
up at the other side of the chasm and saw a smile spread across Octal’s
horrifically disfigured face.
    Without a second
of hesitation, Scarlet leapt off the ledge like a diver from a diving board,
and soared downward toward Sage’s falling figure. Seconds before he hit the
ocean she swept him up into her arms.
    “I’ve got you,”
she whispered, holding him to her chest.
    Sage was heavy.
Scarlet was only able to hover. They were barely inches above the treacherous
water. She knew she couldn’t fly up because that would reveal to Octal that
they had survived and he would launch an attack on them right away.
    It was then that
she saw caves to her right. They were naturally made, eroded into the solid
rock by the ocean over centuries. The castle must have been built on top of
them.
    Scarlet wasted
no time. She flew into the cave, Sage in her arms, and set him down on the
floor. He flopped back and groaned.
    “We’re okay,”
Scarlet said to him. “We made it.”
    But she was
soaking wet and shivering. Her teeth chattered as she spoke. When she held Sage’s
hand, she realized he was trembling too.
    “We didn’t make
it,” he finally said. “I’ve been telling you all along, I am going to die.
Tonight.”
    Scarlet shook
her head, making her tears fly from her cheeks.
    “No,” she said.
    But she realized
then it was no use. Sage was dying. It was really true.
    She held him in
her arms and let the tears fall freely. They rolled down her cheeks and onto
her neck. She didn’t bother to wipe them away.
    Scarlet was
about to utter her goodbyes when she noticed a strange glow coming from beneath
her T-shirt, just where her heart was. She shook her head, thinking at first
she must be hallucinating. But the glow got stronger.
    She looked down
and realized it