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A drunk taxi driver? Just e needed stu to stop a serial killer

I hesitated Should we go over and make sure the occupants were okay? Find a phone and call 911?

Before I could decide, the taxi’s front passenger door flew open, and a man--at least the silhouette looked like a man from where I crouched--jumped out and ran east on Back Street, away fro to pay a drunk driver who crashed the cab

I started to rabbed my arm and pulled me back "Wait," she breathed in ures streamed out and silently surrounded the car One pulled open the driver’s door, and then gestured in the direction of the garage A fifth figure eed

Myrddin

I pulled out my pistol, the one loaded with bronze bullets Mab’s restraining hand weighed on my arm

The demi-demon carried a lidded jar He held it close to his chest, one hand beneath and one on top, keeping the lid in place Heacross the street like he didn’t want to shake the jar’s contents

He’d said so about a jar--told someone he didn’t need it--when he’d tried to kill me

My God We itnessing another Reaper murder

Beside asped and pressed a hand to her back She cursed softly in Welsh She yanked out her pendant and grasped the bloodstone with her left hand,to her feet When she hurled a blast of energy at Myrddin, it was like Zeus throwing a thunderbolt

Myrddin didn’t even turn He clutched the jar to his chest with one hand and flung out the other toward us, paly ainst it The energy strea from Mab’s hand sputtered, then failed Her knees buckled, and she collapsed against the car behind us

Myrddinmotion in our direction The shield sped toward us, accelerating as it came "Get down!" I yelled I ducked and curled into a ball on the ground, coveringto shelter under the SUV The energy shield blasted into that vehicle and tossed it into the air The SUV somersaulted over half a dozen other cars and landed on its roof

I looked behind ht She clasped the bloodstone, preparing for another blast

I leapt to un

Shielding myself behind a van, I popped off three bronze bullets in fast succession All three struck the target, hitting Myrddin once in the shoulder and twice in the back The jar dropped froround As he ray scales His features twisted into glowing yellow eyes above a tusked snout Horns shot forth froht--ten, fourteen, eighteen feet

On Storrow Drive, brakes screeched and metal slammed metal

Myrddin’s demon form still clutched the jar It looked like a dollhouse toy in the thing’s ers fu for the jar, but the de de the jar with one hand, the Myrddin-deures that surrounded the car siht, but I wasn’t quick enough They knehere ere A creature thumped onto the roof of the van directly in front of us It crouched there, eyes glowing orange, drool hanging in strings fros Vampire