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That was at least soh it didn’t exactly ease the tension still curling through me

"But?" I said, because there very obviously was one

"But I can get no feel for her So my ability to pin down her essence, and I cannot tell whether that so else"

I frowned "What else could there be?"

She shrugged "All ical ic physically?"

"Certain eleic and therefore can be either used as a weapon or shield against it" She wrapped the silk covering around the ball and placed it carefully back in her drawer "Whatever is being used, I’et past it"

"Daht just mean, despite her assertions to the contrary, she had last- Carwyn Which would be unfortunate, because she would not find a better match herself"

It was a point Ilianna had finally acknowledged--if only to e the fact that she’d rather remain in a relationship with just Mirri than join Carwyn’s herd and risk the dyna I couldn’t actually say that to Zaira, though, given she didn’t even know her daughter was gay

"I know she doesn’t want to be forced into a herd, but I doubt she’d back away at the lastCarwyn, at the very least She has better manners than that"

Zaira smiled as she walked around the desk "That she has"

She motioned me into the hall, then walked beside me as we made our way back down to the foyer

"You’ll call me the minute you find her?" she said as she unlocked the front door

"Yes, of course" I touched her arm in reassurance "And I’m sorry to have worried you over ill probably turn out to be nothing"

"When it cohters, I would rather be worried over nothing than sohtly squeezed "Be careful I ht not have found Ilianna, but I did sense the shadows that surround you There are people in your life who areshe needed to tell me I forced a sht air was cool after the warentle breeze like ice I zipped up my jacket as I ran down the stairs Azriel reappeared in front ofme to stop on the bottom step

"I could not find her," he said "But she is alive Her death is not slated for this time"

"Just because she’s not meant to die now doesn’t mean she won’t Accidents happen" Nevertheless, relief slithered throughshe was alive, then surely to god she was But that didn’t mean she couldn’t die That she wasn’t in trouble "Da, I can feel it"

"Then what do you wish to do next?"

"There’s nothing we really can do" I bit my lip for a h the GPS in her car"

"And if she is not in her car?"

"Then ed "It’s the only option I have left"

"Then ill try it"

He held out a hand I placeded and ept through the gray fields to Stane’s

He jumped and swore a blue streak e re-for roo back in his chair and holding his hand rather dramatically over his heart "I don’t think I could survive the shock a second tiray," Azriel coth of your heart"

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