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"They’ve combed theses depths for probably thousands of years," Adam said "I’m sure they knew all about the Seraphiinally built this place"

At this, the leyworaze flicked to me

"Do you know?" I asked it

It simply stared back

"Guess you’d better brush up on your language skills," Shelton said with a chuckle "Who’d have thought it? Leyworon snorted

"I should leave the baby here, then," Bella said reluctantly "I’ its diet" She walked to the cluster of babes and set it down "This goes against every motherly instinct in han said, eyes locked onto the seely helpless bundles of joy She looked to Adah soul essence"

The leywor noise

"I don’t think they’ll let us do that, honey," Ada her away from the temptation

I heard a noise like the roar of a lionof a donkey All heads turned toward the sound Shelton held a white-knuckled grip on his staff

"What in the hell is colanced at Elyssa "Sound fa to worry about"

"I’ll be the judge of that," Shelton said

Bella patted him on the back "I’ shape approaching froht for us

"Uh, can the leywor hiy hair hung thick fro creature Tall, thin ears flopped froue lolled from the side of its mouth It made another bray-roar noise, and skidded to a stop when it neared us, stopping to rub its body against the leyworm like a cat

"Yolo?" I said

The creature trotted up to me, and sniffed I reached out a tentative hand, and scratched behind its ear Itbetween a bray and a purr

"Wait athat chased you when you came down here the first time?"

"Yeah," I said "Scared the crap out of us"

"Wasn’t it Vadaeed "I think it just wanted attention"

Yolo brayed and lickedover and scratching the beast

Cinder appeared fros "Justin, I took the liberty of surveying the area I found several oleate, but the leyworon ruame now"

I looked at her expectantly "And that is?"

"He knows you have a powerful influence on beings around you He obviously couldn’t infiltrate the leyworured you could do it" She pointed out a gray-suited shape at the fringe of the white light froolems to take some of the babies"

"I estiolems around this area," Cinder said "It would appear he had no success"

Shelton whistled "That’s a lot of dead golems It can’t be easy to replace the it over "Does he expect me to take a baby so he can steal it fro Mom?

"He wants inforet close enough to see els"

"Wittle baby angels," Bella said in a coochie coo voice, while staring adoringly at one ray men share a consciousness of any kind? Or would an individual scout have to report the infor "I do not remember I would sur of inforh," Elyssa said "So unless they spit out a baby at a golem’s feet, I doubt they know much Maybe they didn’t even see the babies and only saw the leywor the i this, and who are they helping? Because if they’re helping Daelissa, we’re in a world of trouble"

Chapter 8

Nobody had an answer for Shelton’s questions, and the young leywor froray men had suffered, I knee’d be noa baby fro was certain--I had to find out everything I could about this situation before agreeing to anything with Lornicus