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Faed, and handsome

"How do you feel?" I asked

"Fine," he said "Unnerved that you keep staring at me, and pissed that Malory has interrupted what should be a very long and involved reunion between me and my House and reen eyes fire bright "All of my vampires"

My cheeks burned crih my mind was decidedly elsewhere "I'l keep that in mind"

"As wel you should"

"What, exactly, are we going to do if we find Malory?"

"When we find her," he corrected "She wants the Maleficium, and it's in Nebraska There's little doubt our paths wil cross As for the whatI'm not entirely sure Do you think she'd be amenable to bribery?"

"I' she wants," I said "And she has a head start, which et there before we do"

"Assues to evade the Order," Ethan said

"Which seems pretty likely"

The Order was the union of sorcerers that had been overseeing Malory in rehab and was responsible for keeping the Maleficiuly bad job of both

"That's funny, Sulivan Especialy for someone who's been alive for barely twenty-four hours"

"Don't let ood looks confuse you I now have two lifetimes of experience"

I rieved for Ethan, and it was glorious - al the ain

Unfortunately,inan ancient leviathan back into our world

"What's wrong?" he asked

"I can't shake the Malory funk I' the fact that she was the one trying to destroy Chicago, and irritated that instead of celebrating your return, we have to play supernatural babysitters for a woman who should know better"

I rued the day Malory had learned she had one downhil for her - and by extension, her friends and fa time She'd ju tried to snatch my backpack on the El, and it was her shoulder I'd cried on when Ethan made me a vaht have wanted to

"We're on our way to find her I'ree that you should be basking in h the heart to save your life"

I couldn't help but grin "And it didn't even take you twenty-four hours to remind me"

"One uses the tools at one's disposal, Sentinel"

There was a twinkle in his eye, even as the teltale line of worry appeared between his eyebrows

"Do you have any idea where we're actualy supposed to go e get to Nebraska? Where the silo is? It's a big state"

"I don't," he said "I'd planned to give Catcher tis and then ask for details"

Catcher was Malory's boyfriend He'd been eo's supernatural Ombudsman until Diane Kowalcyzk, the city's new mayor, stripped him of the title Like Malory, Catcher was a sorcerer, but he'd been on the outs with the Order er than she had