The second he felt Thae'a's wards relax enough to let them in, felt the soft give of the carpet of the Dreamweaver's living room, he let Bayls go, set his feet, turned and swung. Spread his wings to protect his firecracker female from the blood spray as he jerked his hand out of the Hound's chest …
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The Forest wasn't nearly as dark as it had been but for all that it had less darkness it was hard for him to see what was around him. As though in losing some of its darkness, some of its shadows, it had compensated by limiting his vision. Unease made his stomach lurch and then …
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"Sheieh, what is wrong? Why are you calling again so soon?" He never thought he'd be relieved to hear the Anointed One's voice. As quickly as he could and still be coherent, he explained the current situation, giving as many details as he could which was little to nothing except information on Relyt's sudden shift …
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He could hear Sheieh yelling behind him but he didn't care and he didn't stop. Because the wards on his room back at the cabin, specifically those around the hidden compartments in the walls, had been triggered and he needed to see which ones had been broken into, needed to see what was taken. He …
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She wiped the sweat and blood from her face with a disgusted sneer and a huff, shouldering her way in the front door, flicking her sword clean when she stepped inside the front room. All around her were bodies of dead Hounds and Oiki, all of them rotting and reeking with it in the sudden …
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"You told us that the collar was guaranteed to work!" "Yes, thank you for stating the obvious yet the fuck again, Xitlali," he snapped, pinching the bridge of his nose as he paced the work room. And for reminding me why I almost just let you die instead of having Healers called. "I am well aware of what …
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"Are we going to tell Relyt what we've discovered?" she asked as she tucked her shoulder against the doorjamb of the dining room doorway. Azriel looked at her and she raised an eyebrow. He shook his head and looked back down at the vegetables he was busy dicing on the cutting board, hands quick and …
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He remembered this hallway with its ghosts and its horrors and the memories he wished fervently and always that he didn't have. But for all that he remembered he didn't stop walking. Didn't think he could even if he wanted to, even if he tried. For every single time he found himself here, staring at …
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She watched him pace along the edge of the large table, eyes riveted on the map spread across it, memorizing the changes to the Worlds that he had missed while stuck in the in between. He moved with all the banked violence that his twin had and something else, something darker. Sure he looked and …
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"What you need to do is forget, little brother. It's safer for you, for us all, if you do," he whispered the words as he smoothed his hand through Relyt's hair and tucked the errant curls behind his ear, encouraging his mind to slip further into sleep and to forget. "Your Grace." Lílrt turned with …
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