Chapter 645

• "In self defense!" He forced himself to his feet and stumbled back away from the angel. "I don't want to hurt anyone! Why are you attacking us? Me!?"
• She paused, as if the very act of talking to him defied her reality, as if unmarked were obviously not capable of a conversation, and yet here he was trying to have one. But he'd killed her friends. Rage replaced her surprise.
• "The unmarked must die. The council has decreed it!"