Ned's orantium

Other explosions boomed upstairs and outside, accompanied by hoarse shouts and the shattering of glass.

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Nedwin vaulted down the stairs, a long knife in one hand, a sphere of orantium in the other. Apparently he had been responsible for the repeated explosions above. A gash on his forehead sheeted his face with blood, but his eyes were alert. He threw the orantium sphere and raced to the fort of tables

Chapter 25