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"No offense, Patsy," said Ralph, "but nowhere in Broken Heart is safe Not even theon the trunk of Ralph&039;s car I was so tired Ralph was feeling better because a donor had arrived and let him nosh That&039;s why he&039;d been so easily knocked out - he&039;d been weakened by lack of blood

I was hungry, too, and I wanted meat I was ashamed I craved the cooked flesh of an animal, but the desire was there Steak Mediuht Patsy, Gabriel, the scary green-eyed dude, and Lorcan stood in front of us Other people ran around the area, doing what I didn&039;t know Nothing was salvageable here We&039;d gone over what had happened a hundred ti questions and picked at parts of our story I knew they were trying to find so - that would help theons would be back Everyone knew it

"This whole situation has gotten bigger than all of us," said Patsy "But you&039;re right, Ralph I don&039;t knohere safe is anyo back to his house and chill out I wanted a shower And I wanted to pretend to be normal for just a little while

"Are you sure there were two dragons?" asked Patsy Again

I stopped short of rolling my eyes

Ralph nodded "We think the one who attacked was the sa, Damian?"

Green Eyes shook his head "We never found a body"

Ralph sighed "I think the second dragon is involved with Lia"

"Great So she&039;s hooked up with soon ants his sister&039;s power," said Patsy "Let&039;s hope Ash knohat the hell she&039;s doing"

"She&039;s the only one who can kill him," said Gabriel "She&039;s the Convocation&039;s number one assassin And the only one of her kind"

"And what kind is that?" I asked

"She&039;s a soul shifter She absorbs the souls, and the forms, of the people sheer, releases from the bonds of earth," said Gabriel "The sooner she catches her dragon, the better for us She has to take a soul every ninety days, no matter what, or she dies"

Patsy shuddered "Believe oes down"

"I think Libby should go to the hospital," said Ralph "He banged her up pretty good"

"You, too," I said

"Dragon or not, you both probably need to be checked out," said Patsy "Tell you what - go to the hospital and, if Dr Merrick gives you the thuet souardians over there, just to be safe"

Dr Merrick was tall, slender, and very well dressed I could sense so otherworldly about her, but unlike every other person I&039;d met so far, she didn&039;t have an aura At least, not one I could detect Lucky forus clothes I wore the pajamas and a pair of Ralph&039;s socks Ralph had tucked into a shirt, jeans, and an old pair of sneakers We both had borrowed coats draped on the table near the door

"You and Ralph are fine Well, he&039;s still dead"

"Ha ha, doc," said Ralph

She s, broken bones, or other trauma I could find If you experience pain, nausea, headaches, or double vision, conosis, she left Ralph and I looked at each other It felt aard between us, the way it always did without the fire I wondered if the doctor counted heartache aet me a recheck Probably not That pain was o," said Ralph

We left the exam room and walked down the hallway The hospital was s or not, it had that cloying antiseptic smell found in every hospital The sparkly tattooed ladyBrigid, right? Yeah She stood in the hallway, but had obviously just stepped out froid," said Ralph "How are they?"

Her snation "It&039;s a terrible thing," she said in her Irish lilt,

"to have the power of gods, and not be able to save aze darted toward the opened door

My heart dropped to my toes I didn&039;t want to see what I had done On purpose or not, I&039;d hurt soht not live because of rateful for his intuitive, silent support Brigid gestured toward the room and, reluctantly, I peeked inside

Two hospital beds had been pushed together Patrick and his wife lay shoulder to shoulder with the thin white covers pulled up to their chins I noticed Patrick&039;s hair was black again Both were ghastly pale, and it didn&039;t take a doctor to know that they weren&039;t doing well Each had an IV hooked up to their arms The thin plastic tubes delivered blood Unco fresh blood will revive theid "We&039;ve tried every kind: donors, Ancients, lycans, even oddess, why can&039;t you fix theoddess

"There are rules," she said vaguely

"Libby Monroe?" said a woman&039;s voice

Ralph and I turned around The wo black hair worn plaited She was dressed in tight black jeans, a pink leather jacket, and some kick-ass boots She also wore a white David and Goliath T-shirt that said, "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at the about her was her eyes They were so gray they looked nearly translucent It was creepy, her stare Power eth that I didn&039;t want to see unleashed Her outline was a rainbow of shifting colors I was amazed by her aura, since every other person I&039;d le color

She tilted her head at ive you her soul?"

"What?" I gaped at her "What?"

"Who&039;s Sybina?" asked Ralph

"Perhaps you should start fro way Ash was staring at Ralph "You have soy, too It&039;s like her soul was split in half"

"That&039;s not exactly the beginning," said Brigid