![]() Xayah lifted her head, watching Sarah struggle to reach her, and for the first time since she and Rakan had returned, there was no hatred in her eyes. Zoe, too busy batting away the other guardians like gnats, hadn’t heard Akali shout. Good girl, Sarah thought, knowing Kai’Sa, at least, could keep Akali under control. “Sarah!” Akali shouted, but Kai’Sa shushed her. She moved, inch by painful inch, toward Xayah and Rakan. She made it all of five feet before her legs gave out. “So are you,” Kai’Sa reasoned, but Sarah took another agonizing step forward, and then another. Rakan reached for her, but she held out a trembling hand, and he faltered. It made phantom tendrils in Sarah’s blood shudder. Sarah watched Xayah try to stand, but she was pulled down, sinister hands of chaos distorting the air around her. Rakan was soon back on his feet, but Xayah remained where she’d fallen. ![]() Rakan! His shield would protect her! Sarah watched them crash for the second time today, a mere twenty feet from the jungle gym. Sarah stood up, forgetting her own pain, as another speck of light followed Xayah’s descent. Not as Zoe’s hand plucked her from the air before hurling her to the ground. “Xayah!” Sarah knew Xayah couldn’t hear her. “Look!” Kai’Sa pointed, right as Zoe lunged for a lone magenta spark twinkling by her hip. Zoe’s tantrum had faltered under the onslaught of everyone’s attacks, but now the aura around Zoe was growing again, and Xayah-where was Xayah?! She’d been right there with the others, but now. It was for her friends that Sarah’s heart sank. Sarah didn’t know how to tell Kai'Sa how right she’d been-that everyone fighting out there against Zoe. Sarah glanced at Akali and Kai’Sa, huddled against one another, their faces illuminated by Zoe’s horrid glow, but also by the light of the guardians fighting above them. Battles won and lost, hopes and dreams shared, all of it together. Rakan and Xayah bickering over boba, Ahri, Sarah, and Neeko laughing with them. Sarah knew that Zoe had broken her, with her words, with her magic, but a small voice that sounded a lot like Lux asked if maybe part of her needed to break so she could remember. Hope that warred with the painful memories she could no longer keep buried as Xayah and Rakan unleashed themselves upon Zoe alongside Ahri and Neeko. She was furious at Ahri and Neeko for not trusting her, at Xayah and Rakan for putting the other guardians through so much to get to this point, but that anger paled in comparison to the wild, foolish hope she now held. Sarah was still angry as she watched her former team speed toward Zoe.
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