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Slowly Aaze met Sabin’s for a bleak, tor a new voice inside his head Then he blinked, hiding his pain as he had a thousand times before, and strode to the far hile Sabin watched, resolute I will not feel guilty This has to be done

The wall looked the saed stones piled on top of each other and rising at a slant, yet Aers splayed, then his other hand on the fifth up, fingers closed Moving in sync, he twisted one wrist to the left, one to the right

The stones pivoted with him

Sabin observed the proceedings with awe Never ceased to amaze him, what Amun could learn in a few heartbeats of time

Once the stones settled into their new positions, a crack for with a streak of space Sabin hadn’t noticed before A section of the wall pulled back…back, and finally began to inch to the side There would be a gaping doorhen it finished, wide enough for an ar beasts like himself

As it continued to widen, cool air blustered through the cataco the torches to sputter and crackle Hurry, he projected to the stones Had anything everslowness?

“Any Hunters waiting on the other side?” he asked, sliding his Sig Sauer fro a few more from his pocket and reloaded The custom silencer remained in place

Auard at that ever-widening chasm

Seven Hunters against ten Lords He didn’t count Amun because the man would soon be too distracted by the new voice in his head to fight But gods knew Amun would still (silently) demand to be included in the action Still Poor Hunters They didn’t have a chance “They knoe’re here?”

A shake of that dark head

No ca their every move, then Excellent

“Seven Hunters is child’s play,” Lucien, keeper of Death, confirainst the far wall He was pale, his ht with…fever? “Go on withoutI’ll soon have souls to escort, anyway And then I’ll have to flash our prisoners to the dungeon in Buda”

Thanks to the demon of Death, Lucien could ht and was often forced to usher the dead into the hereafter That didn’t mean he himself was immune to destruction Sabin frowned over at him Studied him The scars on his face were more pronounced, his nose out of joint There was a bullet wound in his shoulder, one in his sto from his lower back, his kidney

“You okay, man?”

Lucien sh, I’ll probably wish I hadn’t A few organs are shredded”

Ouch Been there, had to recover froenerate a limb”

Frons

“Not only are there no cameras installed, but they’re in a chamber with soundproof walls,” Sabin interpreted “This was an ancient prison and theThe Hunters are completely oblivious to our presence, which should make it easy to ambush them”

“You don’t need me for a simple a to his ass and propping his back on a stone to hold himself up Reyes had been paired with the de injured actually strengthened hiht ended, however, he weakened like anyone else Right now, he was more battered than the rest of them, with a cheek so swollen his line of vision had to be shit “Besides, souard the prisoners”

Seven against eight, then Poor Hunters Actually, Sabin suspected Reyes wanted to stay behind to guard Lucien’s body from the enemy Lucien could take it with hih, which he probably wasn’t now

“Your woive me hell,” Sabin muttered The two had recently fallen in love, and both Anya and Danika had asked only one thing of Sabin before the warriors left for Egypt: bring my man back safely

When the boys arrived hoed condition, Danika would shake her head at Sabin in disappointment as she rushed to soothe Reyes and Sabin would feel slimier than the mud on his boots Anya would shoot him exactly as Lucien had been shot, then comfort Lucien, and Sabin would feel pain Lots and lots of pain