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"My dear Dredmore" Walsh’s face stretched into a broad s about almost every neck and door in the city have hearts of dreaed them The Tillers won’t even knoe’re here"

I didn’t knohat dreamstone was, nor did I think Dredmore could be duped by anyone, but fro

"I take it you lot are Reapers?" I asked the Talian

"For a stupid skirt, you know much" Celestino didn’t sound as if he approved

"Women in this country have always been vastly underrated" My throat tightened as Walsh took a glea red stone from a white velvet pouch "Lord Dredmore is insanely wealthy, you know If I could convince you to intervene on his behalf, I can guarantee he would see to it that you would never have to dirty your hands again with this sort of nonsense"

"Oh,of my country"

I saw Walsh drop the stone in Dredmore’s hand before he took the pistol from his son

I reached out to touch the surface of the tay glass "Lucien"

As if he’d heard, Dredmore turned his head to look directly at me, put the stone in his mouth, and sed At the exact same moment, Lord Walsh placed the pistol at his own teer

Soripped the knife at ers and wrenched it out of the Talian’s hand The blade cut deep into ers as I ran out and into the rooed as he swiped at his father’s brains, which were all over the front of his fancy jacket as well as the wall behind him

I switched the bloody blade to my left hand, ready to use it as I stepped between the men and Dredmore I stepped back until I could reach hirabbed his sleeve, but he didn’t ht came out of Lord Walsh’s body, first from his slack lips, and then in a burst out of the hole in his head They flew pastand heaving The red lights swirled, closing in on hi it and slowly stood, and the lights were sucked into the darkness of his eyes, dwindling until they were two tiny red glints

"Dredmore" I told myself it had been a trick, one of his ridiculous illusions "Say so, but held up one hand and turned it over, as if he’d never seen it before Then he s beautiful and terrible, his eyes taking on a horrid red glow I didn’t even resist as the Talian took the knife from my hand and forced me down on my knees

"Ecco, sovrano mio," Celestino babbled as he dropped down beside no oscuro"

Dredle word "Riecco out, clear as church bells, and the wrongness of it setBut the man had just been forced to s a rock; couldn’t have been easy on his throat

I was sure I could keep tellingas was necessary

"Dove sono capitato?" Definitely not Dredmore’s voice, yet it came from Dredmore’s mouth

"Il continente Victoriana, sovrano La Cittá di Rurumbled, "how are the rest of us supposed to understand hier lance "Who do you think gave you your tongue, boy?" He took a step, looked down at his legs, and then pressed a hand to his chest and ar You chose well, umano"

"My wife knew this body would please you, Master Especially after you were forced to wait so long in" The Talian gestured vaguely at Nolan Walsh’s corpse "Our ships will be arriving at daith your army We will meet them at the docks, and once you have ainst the city"

"Dad never said anything about blowing his brains out," Montrose muttered "And I still don’t see how oneit"

"I a in Dredmore’s body eyed e" He ran the tip of his tongue from one side of hishad admitted what it was, and Dredmore would never lick his lips in such a repulsive fashion

Celestino cleared his throat "My lord, forgive the boy for speaking out of turn Young Lord Walsh is much beloved by my wife, who in return for the sacrifice of his father’s flesh humbly asks that you heal hiether as he reached down to take hold oftouched by a corpse "And this flesh? It too serves me?"

Montrose snickered "Not bloody likely"

"Do you even knohose body you’ve stolen?" I asked Zarath "Lucien Drede, and Grand Master of the dark arts He can slice a er into his chest "Get out of hi and ugly death"

No one said anything, and then Celestino began laughing "Oh, uffaws "The Aramanthan do not die as we do They have lived for thousands of years here in our world as well as the netherside"