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I can act like I’reen and entered a clearing He stopped and breathed deeply The air was clean here Pure and untouched Also kind of annoying He wanted to catch a hint of rose Tinker Bell was still here and warrab her She would probably fight hith Was probably fatigued But she’s got heart, he thought, a now fah his chest

"Well?" William prompted

"We set up ca the club and needed to rest--though they had and they did--but because he could tell they were being followed and he didn’t want to lead his shadow to Tinker Bell

He doubted the Hunters were after hi Kane’s forced stay in hell, a battle had been waged in the skies, Hunters against Lords, Titans against Sent Ones

The Lords and Sent Ones had won, utterly destroying the Hunters and severely weakening the Titans

Kane gathered stones, twigs and dried leaves to build a fire He cared little about war him to see the smoke and assume he was relaxed, unprepared Was the culprit immortal? If so, what race? And as he after Kane?

Doesn’t ainst one of the stones he’d set aside His reflection caught on the silver e The red in his eyes had intensified

Disaster had grown stronger, Kane far weaker Disgusted, he set the weapon away

"You knoe’ve got a feht?" William asked

A Phoenix? He’d never messed with the fire-happy race "I do Of course I do" Now "How did you know?"

"I can sht"

"The plan?"

"To wait"

"And slaughter her on our own turf," Willia around his super "I like it Siant" He eased onto the only rock in front of the fire he hadn’t helped build, and dug through his backpack He withdrew a pistachio nutrition bar he’d stolen from Kane, tore off the wrapper--and ate every bite, never offering Kane a taste

Typical

"That was good You should have brought one" Williaether He wore a T-shirt that read I’m a Jenius, and that pretty much encapsulated the male’s entire personality Silly, unconcerned, irreverent Misleading

Kane dug through his own pack He withdrew three daggers, two Sigs and the parts to his long-range rifle What could a female Phoenix ith him? He knew the race lived for the enslave extinction,met their final end Like cats with nine lives He knew they were bloodthirsty and war-hungrybut they usually only picked battles they could win

So confident Disaster chuckled with evil glee So wrong

Kane ignored hi threats, but look where that had gotten hiy And why should he? This was a full-on case of dead de out white-hot streams in every direction Grass sizzled, and black s his calves

Willia out the flao, so terrible happens"

"I know" And the worst was yet to co prediction?"

"Oh, yes," William said "Definitely"

Hope bloomed "When?" He fit the rifle’s barrel on top of the fraently tightened "How?"

"When--too many times to count How--free will Our choices dictate our future, nothing else"

Intelligent words froure "They think I’m destined to marry the keeper of Irresponsibility"

"So do it Hunt her down and marry her"

Williaers, and boom Done Only one little problem He had yet toa woman to an eternity with me" He attached the bipod and rested the entire weapon on a thick sturumbled "I happen to think you’ll end up with her, whether I like it or not"

White was Williauess, one of the reasons William had followed hiirl

"I know you do," he said "What I don’t knohy"

"Simple I was once told her husband would cause an apocalypse"

"By the Moirai?"

"One of the Moirai I slept with Klotho And both of her sisters"

"I so did not need to hear that Dude, they’re ancient"