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Or maybe that wariness simply stemmed from the fact that I didn’t trust the man who’d made it

And yet he’d also made the Dušan on my arm, and she’d saved my life twice now

I contemplated the cube for several ed in front of it I glanced up as Azriel appeared "I don’t suppose you could get me--"

"Done" He offered me the knife hilt first, then sat oppositeher across his knees Blue fire ran the length of her bright blade, a sure sign she was ready for action

Hopefully, she wouldn’t be needed

I drew a deep breath, then released it slowly It didn’t do a lot to calertip until a drop of blood appeared, then turned er upside down and let the blood drip onto the cube As it hit, the rainboirl of colors stopped, and everything went still

Then light burst fro white Azriel disappeared froht, and Valdis’s fierce blue flames were little more than a shadowed flicker

"Father, are you out there?" My voice echoed slightly in the odd silence of the white void

For several seconds, there was no reply; then his voice--a harsher, morethis cube?"

"You gave it to "

"So you have found the next key?"

"Not yet"

"Then why are you using this cube?"

Ih the whiteness around er once before I did not want a repeat of the bruises that had ensued

And yet I couldn’t quite help snapping, "Because if you want the da to have to do a bit ive you what I do not have The Raziq who hid the keys are dead I cannot call theone to, so I am at a loss as to the point of this request"

"The request isn’tmy mind The fact that he obviously wasn’t oing on Aedh could usually read the minds of anyone nearby, and my father had implied he could read mine anytime he desired "I want to know if you can create a ward or so like that to keep both the Raziq and the black sorcerer who stole the first key out of whatever building I happen to be searching It would need to be reusable"

He was silent for a moment, then said, voice cool, "When would you need such an ite for the key before we have so ourselves from outside forces"

And that outside force included hiht, he thankfully didn’t react to it "It could be done It would not, however, keep anything flesh based out"

"Meaning it won’t keep the sorcerer out?" If that was the case, then it was pointless

"It will keep the sorcerer out if he usesquickly enough that would also stop hiic to transport out if he happened to arrive in flesh for?"

"No, they are not It is easy enough to bounce ic to prevent entry It is harder to contain once in"

Ah You learned so every day "What about the Raziq?"

"The wards will be designed to react to the energy of their beings, so will restrict entry regardless of the form they take"

"Does that mean they will also restrict Lucian?"

"My chr&aacute;n&iacute; has basically been reduced to flesh form, so no But the restrictions that apply to the sorcerer would also apply to hiic to transport in and snatch the keys froht in If he le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>