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Without thinking Piper reached out for him, her fingers stretching towards him until her body was racked with a heavy rattle in her chest. Warmth spilt over her lips and down her chin, coating her all the way down to her collar bone in proud, red, blood. The crowd's cheers pulsed in both of their ears, Calistor growling at their noise beneath his breath, fell to his knees next to her. His arms encircled her waist, snaking a hand up her back to cup her head in his palm gently, with that fiery inhuman instinct still in his eyes he planted a kiss to her shoulder.