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"One?" Ian repeated with the saion, for we are many,&039; " Balchezek quoted with an arch smile "In that case, it was several demons inside one person, but the reverse can happen, too One demon splits him or herself into several parts and simultaneously possesses different people It&039;s tricky to do, though, because-"

"Be quiet or I will kill you!" Bones roared, his voice now totally fenizable

"-you can only branch off into members of your anchor&039;s fa Bones the bird "First you have to be lodged into one person good and tight That&039;s your anchor Then you perform a ritual on yourself to split off into members of their family and remote-control them, but as a split, it&039;ll make you appear like a blurry facsimile to other demons And if all that sounds labor-intensive, it&039;s even harder to do with vampires"

"How so?" I asked almost numbly

"For starters, you can only possess a va on through the transfor to do that, but even stronger to attempt simultaneous possessions of other vampires The upside is that if you pull it off, you&039;re not li your anchor&039;s hueneration of your anchor&039;s siring bloodline You&039;d need to stay within close proxih, and keep their attention focused on you, or a varab the reins back"

All those stories Wraith kept telling Was that his way of keeping everyone&039;s attention on him so he could stay demonically implanted? This sounded too unbelievable even for me, and I&039;d seen-and done-a lot of freaky stuff in my day Sohed

"You want et your boy on top again He&039;s far enough away from the demon&039;s main anchor that it should be easier for him to pop up Noould really, really upset him?"

I wished I could call a time-out to assi thrown at rabbed control ere flying He stabbedthe knife, he yanked it out and stuck it in himself"

And said he had to die while he still had her contained Oh God, Balchezek was right Bones wasn&039;t under a spell; he was possessed, and I didn&039;t know of any way to get the de hi wouldn&039;t do a daood, and there was no ti my shoulders "In the heart"

Ian walked over, but instead of pulling out one of the silver blades I knew he had on him, he yanked ht before his mouth slanted over mine

I was so stunned that I didn&039;t rab ue seeking entry, but I wrenched my head away