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They began to chat and were soon as animated as old friends She wasn’t overly obvious with her flirting, just ith encouraging sy radiating off her was strong enough that I could feel it frory

I shivered In the back of , the soft sound filled with expectation This one is not for you, I’m afraid

It hunts, she replied, somewhat testily Should kill

Oh, she will be killed, just not by us

Task h if she had, it was in a language I couldn’t understand Did dee?

Of course, Azriel couess I just didn’t expect it from a demon in a sword

Remember, before she was in the sword, she was a very powerful deood, she commented Should cause more

I snorted Bloodthirsty little beast, aren’t you?

She preened I shook uaze swept the club, but I didn’t see any sign of the guardian Maybe he’d left after talking to thethe entrance

Dauardian wouldn’t abandon his post so easily Or that we’d be that lucky We need to take him out

The shifter and the spider-spirit didn’t head for the front door, however, but rather turned and walked, arm in arm, in my direction I swore softly, but kept my head down and sipped the remains of ot, the worse it got, until it felt like thousands of tiny black feet were skittering all over lass became so fierce, my knuckles hite--how it didn’t shatter, I had no idea

They walked past, whispering like lovers I resisted the urge to jufootsteps They didn’t go into the bathrooh the rear fire exit

I thrust to ertips before it closed again The alarm, I noted, had been disconnected--and had been for a while, if the state of the wires was anything to go by Obviously, the Jorõgumo and her lover were not the first to make a retreat out the rear door

I cautiously peered out The two of theth of the row of buildings in this block I waited until they’d neared theclosed before --as stealthily as I could--down the lane The ht, I quickened ood hearing While hefollowed, he u? I asked

They have stopped near a car Azriel paused The guardian is on the move as well

Shit He must have put either aze swept the shadows around me, but I couldn’t spot either of them Of course, he very obviously wouldn’t have put them anywhere that they could be easily seen

If there were daht lead to trouble for uuardian suspicious, but it certainly would prick Uncle Rhoan’s internal radar

Where is he?

He’s just turned left into the street youthe Jorõgue, I had to take him out I looked around for so particularly handy lying about But there was some sort of industrial Dumpster near the far end of the lane I spun, ran back, and cli refuse and building rubbish, I found so

I juunk clinging to ers around ic transformed me in an instant, and I scooted down the lane Now I just had to hope that the guardian wasn’t sensitive to energy forces

I paused at the junction of the lane and the street and glanced left The shifter and the Jorõgu into a pale blue Toyota I sworeacross the footpath for the guardian

He wasspeed for solinted in his fist Tracker, I thought That was the last thing I needed

I flowed past him, then spun around andto knock him out? Total re-foriven my less-than-stellar re-for a partial one--so I had done when in flesh form, but never from Aedh Or on the move

I snuck closer, then called to the Aedh This ti its fury, containing its strength, focusing it on just the ar both real and solid

The guardianbecause he suddenly spun, but I’d already let loose with the chair leg It sainst the side of his head with a heavy crack, and he dropped like a ton of bricks Guilt flickered through me I hoped like hell he wasn’t hurt too badly, but it wasn’t like I could stop and check

I drew my arm back to Aedh form and raced down the street just as the shifter’s car pulled away froet hoot pulled over by the cops I couldn’t keep attacking law enforceiven few cops traveled alone these days, and all of them had onboard cameras in their cars