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Lucivar let that sink in, allowed himself a moment’s relief and joy "So nohat happens?"

"Now I create a shadow of you, and you head for the Keep Stay on the Red Wind The darker ones are unstable"

Shadows Dae Not by hirown up around Andulvar and Prothvar, would have expected an Eyrien warrior to be able to accept the pain of the battlefield, no matter what that battlefield looked like

"What do you need?" Lucivar asked

Daemon hesitated "Soaether in silence The only sound Lucivar h of relief when Dae of Honor over his cock and used it to re of Obedience in a way that wouldn’t be detected

Putting on the Ebon-gray Jewels Daemon had returned to him, he watched the final steps to the spell that would create a shadow of hiuished creature whose lips were pulled back in a rictus grin

"Hell’s fire, Bastard," Lucivar said, feeling queasy "What was it you did tolikethat ?"

"I don’t know," Daeine so" He hesitated, sed hard "Look, Prick, for once in your life, just do as you’re told Get to the Keep Everyone whofor you there"

"Not everyone," Lucivar said softly

"I’ll get the High Lord out" Dae for, what he hoped for He wanted to be told that Saetan wasn’t the only one left who

Daeo There’s one ales lying on the ground Why had Daemon made such a point of them? And why did they chill him so much?

He hissed in frustration, then jolted at the sibilant sound

"You wish to undersstand thiss?" Draca had asked

Bangles floating in a tank of water Draca holding an egg-shaped stone attached to a thin silk cord "A sspiral"

The stone , until all the water was in ht

"A whirlpool," Geoffrey had said

"No," Draca had replied "A maelsstrom Sshe will almosst alwayss sspiral You cannot alter her nature But the maelsstroth and your love and perhapss it will never happen"

"And if it does?" he had asked

"It will be the end of the Blood"

End of the Blood

End of

Those bangles weren’t afroth to unleash the maelstrom The end of the Blood Was that why she had insisted that the First Circle remain at the Keep? Because it would be the only place that could withstand that devastating power? No Jaenelle didn’t like to kill She wouldn’t destroy all the Blood if she could

Damn itDamn it, he needed to draw that vision back Needed to see those webs again in order to re hi him A veil had been drawn across that vision to keep hi until it was too late

But if she was going to unleash the here?

Stalling Buying tiames to Marian and Daemonar Then Surreal He’d heard Lucivar cry out a couple of hours ago, but there had been no sign of him since then Which only left

A shadow fell across the bangles

He looked up into Daelazed eyes

"It’s ti, but he could smell Hekatah nearby So he let Dae while he was tied to the bed

When Daeame end?"

Daemon tensed, sed hard "In a couple ht" He laid a hand gently on Saetan’s chest "Nothing’s going to happen Just--"

They both heard so

Saetan shook his head Everything has a price "Make it convincing, Daenation and the apology in Daemon’s eyes before his son kissed him

And he learned why the Blood called Dae at the wall