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Guilt powered down on his head, tensing his neck and tightening his chest This hat happened to the woer meant injury and death
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Blood still seeped from her shoulder She needed help Now "I think you’d better call one of the healers My powers don’t encorimaced, his brows drawn into a deep furrow as he stared at Alison "Endelle is on her way"
"Thank God In the meantime, pressure on the wound would help"
Thorne stepped close and with the heel of his palm stanched the flow "She’s very beautiful," he murmured
"Yeah," Kerrick muttered Dammit, he shouldn’t have taken her at the neck earlier What the hell had he been thinking and just how much blood did she have left? The level of Alison’s powers demanded she battle her way into Second and she needed every resource, including a decent a?
He hadn’t
Ever since the breh-hedden had taken hold of hi on fu her out on the couch, this wouldn’t have happened He needed to get a grip Now
"So why the eaze to Kerrick "How ht by yourself and barely break a sweat"
"There were dozens A regiment"
"What the fuck?"
"Greaves sent his army" Which was another part of the truth He’d been prepared to take on two or three squads of death vaoddamn motherfucker So there weren’t only death va soldiers" He told his story ending with, "Things would have been different if he hadn’t sent his army That i rule Shit"
"Don’t beat yourself up We knew frorid Any way you look at it, you were screwed"
Right Whatever "Soe of her"
"Doesn’t sound like it would make one lizard’s turd of a difference"
Kerrick huffed a laugh "No I guess not"
"No question we’re in for it, though And you knohat the Coency lift"
"You got that right" He ground his teeth There weren’t enough obscenities to cover the scope of his thoughts "But we’d both be dead otherwise and isn’t it kind of illegal to be dropping an arust "The Committee will overlook that little indiscretion"
COPASS The Committee to Oversee the Process of Ascension to Second Society "Bullshit coain, the one laced with despair He had been a warrior one century too long He couldn’t seem to find his feet anymore, and by the looks of it Thorne wasn’t in lanced at Alison "So, what do we have here? Endelle said she sent a hand-blast up the Trough"
"Yep Saw it eyser about a quarter of a h"
"Damn"
"Where the hell is Endelle? Alison can’t loseback and forth as he scanned the rooet Alison back to Mortal Earth I have no idea how long she can tolerate being on Second" An un-ascendedin the second dimension for more than a couple of hours at a ti effects would rob the y to recover An extended stay of longer than twenty-four hours, wounded or not, always ended in death Only when Alison received from Endelle’s hand the ascended vampire nature at her ascension cere on Second Earth
The air shiaze and without a single nicety cried, "What the hell have you done? An eency lift? Do you knohat this"Did you just lose half your IQ points, Warrior? Shit!" The decibels she employed in that one word, spoken as it was both aloud and with telepathy, pounded the hell out of his eardrums and shattered all the bottles on the bar The sudden reek of alcohol drenched the air "You ht as well have handed Alison’s head on a platter to that ave Greaves one ainst us He’ll take this to COPASS and deain, what the hell were you thinking?"
"Didn’t have a choice, an He told her what he’d told Thorne
She scowled as she glanced at Alison "You know, you’re really lettingdeep breath through his nose "Yes, ma’am But there wasn’t much else I could do The Comis, a ruddy scarlet this tiht and breadth, a reflection of her te and wore tight black leather pants and soht buffalo, maybe
"You’d better take her back to Mortal Earth," she barked