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He knew better than to let that out of his sight It was one of the few things he’d been given that never let him down The sword alorked the way it was supposed to Pointy end went into his enen and dependability were beautiful things

Oh, wait a second …

A weird thought occurred to him as he bashed one of the demons over the head with the book in his hands

Could he summon his sword into this realm? It was infused with part of his DNA Supposedly it was in tune with hi for months on the ability to summon his shen he needed it It was supposed to co else worked the way it was supposed to, why should the sword obey him? Especially since he was in another dimension

Still, it orth a try An effort wouldn’t cost hi his eyes, Nick did his best to i his pal the heft of it in his hand, he was struck in the chest

Nick staggered back as soh his entire body He opened his eyes to see ht on top of hi with mortents They smelled and they were just plain old obnoxious

Other de profusely and Bane was pinned into a corner

Man or

Nick opened himself up to the ether and let it whisper to hiht exploded all around the his hand up, Nick continued to whisper even as he was forced to avert his eyes fro blind

The other half of the deht to reach him And as they drew so close that he could feel their fetid breath on his skin, a clap of thunder rang out in his head One second, they were nipping at his heels, in the next, he drove the

Nick started to laugh, until he realized that he couldn’t turn whatever it was off Worse, it was building up, faster and faster, trying to take control of hih his veins It felt like he was burning fro at hi

And there was nothing they could do to stop it

CHAPTER 10

Nick felt his life force draining out of him Then, just before the darkness took hi Desperate, he tried to grab on to so

Still, he fell

Until he hit a sharp object that stabbed hih his chest He waited for …

He didn’t know Disoriented and sick, he only wanted to wake up at ho back to normal

But that was easier said than done

I have to face whatever it is

Opening his eyes, he went rigid, unable to believe his sight For once, it wasn’t so from a horror movie Instead, he stared into the face of heaven and it was shtly at hiht I’d lost you"

"So did I" He tried to roaned as absolute misery pierced him "Did you beat me?"

"I didn’t, but sootten? The worm had jumped him on his way to Liza’s

All of a sudden, Caleb appeared in huoodness, he lived, but the peeved light in his eyes said he wanted to finish what Bristol had started

Then, he glared at Kody "Could you have cut that any closer?"

She gestured to Nick "Talk to your friend here He was the one ouldn’t wake up"

"Yeah," Caleb breathed, turning his vicious glare back to Nick "What was that you did?"

He scowled "What do you mean?"

"Do you recall the Nether Realet without massive amounts of electroshock therapy "Of course I do, and I never want to go there again"

"That lanced back and forth between them "So what happened?"

Caleb jerked his chin toward Nick "Your boyfriend turned into a human torch and annihilated a number of demons before you yanked him out of there"

She appeared impressed by his description "A torch? Really?"

Caleb nodded "So what happened, Gautier? What’d you do?"

Shrugging, he tried to remember "What always see to surabbed ahold ofat me to not use those powers I kill a bunch of stuff and then you yell atto you"