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Which didn’t mean there weren’t any in the bedroom

The bedroo to slip underneath it until I knew for sure aited on the other side I shifted back to flesh forers and ripped the door handle, I closed ht be listening that there wouldn’t be anything untoaiting beyond this door

But, as usual, they had the IGNORE button pressed when it caest daoddas

I ju my lips, and hit Azriel so hard that I actually forced hiripped my arms and he steadied us both

"Her nest," he said, rather unnecessarily "But I suspect it is not her only one"

I sed heavily,and all the critters up there There was no way in hell I was getting any closer to that room They didn’t appear to have noticed e that situation "What er than the ones who attacked us and therefore more likely to be older"

That a dark spirit was capable of havingI did not want to think about I forced aze froh to call it a body was soht have been little more than preserved skin, but there wasn’t even that much left of Summer Just some dark hair on the pillow and a few bits of what looked like nails and bone reh me Azriel rubbed my arms, but the heat of his touch did little to combat the chill

"Why would she have more than one lot of babies?" I asked "And if she does, why the hell aren’t we overrun with spiderlike dark spirits here on earth?"

"I would suggest the reason is because they’re cannibalistic"

"What?"

"Look at the carpet It is littered with carcasses"

He was right It was In fact, the reray carpet looked like patchwork "So she kills the victih, they feed on one another? How does that est of them survive It is not unusual behavior"

"Maybe in your world, but not in mine," I muttered I knew that there were so did eat one another, but only if there wasn’t another food source, and it was generally rare

"Children are not as common in my world as yours and therefore somewhat revered" His voice held a hint of censure "We certainly would not allow them to harm one another in any way"

Which wasn’t what I lanced up at hiroups?"

"We do"

"Then ould children be rare? Do you suffer the same sort of problem that has killed off most of the Aedh?"

"No Aedh breed only when their death is imminent, which kept their nued, but we think the Raziq had a lot to do with it"

That raised my eyebrows "They killed off their own kind?"

"They believe in their cause and would certainly be capable of wiping out all opposition In this case, that would mean those who tended and believed in the current viability of the gates"

"All of which doesn’t explain why reapers don’t breed willy-nilly"

He hesitated "It is a coe partners aren’t always our Caomhs"

"Can you have both?"

"Rarely And if a reaper only ever finds his recharge companion, he will not be blessed with children"

"And have you any children?" I asked, curious and perhaps a littleafraid Because if he had children, that would mean he’d met his Caomh, which in turn meant there was never any hope for us

Not that there ever really was

His expression closed over "I am not the Aedh, Risa I do not want or needin the fields for ently--chastised, I pulled round "So what do you suggest we do about these spiders? Do we leave them, keep watch on the apartment, or what?"

"You do not wish to call your uncle?"

I hesitated "How likely are the spiders to attack anyone who enters that roos the air"