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remembering the agony she had felt only moments before. She was not cruel by nature, but could summon no sympathy for the Faeries.There was a ripple in the air beside her and Bodicea appeared there, crouched in the dirt. The ghost was now as solid as she had seemed when they first entered the enchanted woods. Tamara noticed for the first time that Bodicea's skin was flushed with blood. She was more real in that instant than any ghost had a right to be, and in her nakedness, so vulnerable that Tamara forgot, for a moment, how fierce the warrior queen could be, and was afraid for her.
"Are the Faeries that powerful, Bodicea, that they can turn you almost human?"
The ghost nodded her head, but another yowl of fury from the clearing made her stiffen.
"We shall speak of this another time. That is the princess Godda herself, back there. Go now. I will distract them so that you may escape."
Tamara frowned deeply, her teeth gritted in anger. "I will never leave William behind-"
Bodicea shushed her. "Go now!"
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