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To hear

I inched forward, following the haunting, u on a chair, his jacket dumped on the floor and his shirt undone to the waist His eyes were closed, and his expression was one of bliss I couldn’t actually see why--the music, while different, wasn’t exactly a sound that would put me into raptures But then, my tastes tended to run to pop and rock rather than more classical stuff

Besides, his state didn’t really have a whole lot to do with the actual music, but rather the lute it caic, and the rooumo knelt at his feet, her head bent and her dark hair cascading over what looked to be a ss with nails that were long and glistened with silver--silver that fell onto the wood floor and spun up and around the shifter’s sneakered feet

Her web

The music spelled him, distracted him, while she spun her cocoon around hih I wasn’t entirely sure she could hear y particles No consu Just containment

With that, I called forth the Aedh and re-forive Amaya room to do her stuff There was no way in hell I was about to risk baby spiders being thrown atfire at the Jorõgu speed, throwing herself sideways and out froerly crawling across the floor toward her, but already she was dissolving, her face and torso beco little more than wisps that trailed behind the rest of her body as she continued to run from Amaya’s flames

"Fuck," I said, and regained full fors!"

A rope of fire lashed out instantly, whipping around what reu to the floor and finding forain

Only her for and black, with skin that writhed and pulsated I did not want to knoas causing that ed at s bared and as thick as my are of the coffee table and I tipped ass over the top of it I landed aardly, but had barely rolled ontoI looked up to see a hairy black leg cothat sounded oddly like a death knell Notwas fierce as her steel bit deep into one of the fleshier parts of the Jorõgu, and blood flew As did little black objects

It was my worst fear come to life There were baby spiders under her skin

Soh

"Azriel!" I screaht "I need some damn help here!"

Already here

His lance across the other side of the rooumo A second creature had appeared, only this one was made up of thousands of little tiny bodies that writhed and moved and hissed and yet acted as one deadly enemy Azriel attacked theso fast, he was little more than a blur But for every part of the mass they destroyed, others just crawled in and resued at s I ducked away fros One went flying but the other reh heaven and stinging where it hit flesh Hoping like crazy the stuff had to be injected to actually work, I batted away another attack, then leapt high, twisted in ht behind her eyes A across the room as well as in my head

Don’t kill, I ordered her fiercely Just blind and bind

Then I swung her with all the strength I had Her steel bit into the bitch’s eyes just as the Jorõgu herself at the wall We hit hard, and breath whooshed froup on the floor underneath her One foot scrapeddeep, and a scream rolled up my throat I bit down on it and crawled out fro and leg A hand grabbed ht

"Amaya!" Azriel said "Flame and ensnare Now!"

My sword responded instantly, and twin lances of fla creature’s body, spreading out in vibrant fingers, weaving in and out of each other, joining the rope of flas, until it had formed a net that encased the spider-spirit’s entire body

She didn’t stop writhing and screa anywhere

I collapsed back against the wall and closedwas bleeding, I was aching all over from my encounter with the wall, but hey, I was alive and the spider wasn’t dead As outcouess the fact you have only one injury is soreed, voice wry "However, it would have been nice if you could have reuys who keep attacking me" I opened my eyes Azriel stood several feet away, his body covered with tiny wounds that gave his skin a bloody glint Concern rolled through y, re flesh" I pushed away froertips across the worst of the wounds on his arm "If the babies were as venomous as their mom--"

"I will burn off their venoave me a sweet, somewhat lopsided smile "But I appreciate the concern"

"Hey, I don’t want to lose you over so bitten by a da I would be overly pleased with, either"