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"Yes" His fingers gripped ht trele isn’t half bad"

I glanced down as I hauled hih the second shift at all well Not only had I lost a sleeve, but there was a gaping hole down my left side that exposed one breast Andonyou haven’t seen before," I commented "And your clothes haven’t fared h it does explain the sudden feeling of freedoretted theinto action with their pokers – and released Jak’s hand "I think you’d better stay here while I check --"

"No way on god’s green earth," he cut in "If I’d hung back last time, I’d be dust like those walls Consider et out of this place"

I couldn’t exactly argue given it was totally true I took a careful step The air stirred, and the hairs at the back ofelse was here

I stopped and scanned the roohtly, even though the place was hushed and the air up here still

The iain I swore under an to hues of her steel

"Drawing your sword is not a good sign," Jak said "What can you see that I can’t?"

"Moving electrical wires"

"Electrical wires? Seriously?"

"I’er It was alrab us My skin crawled and I quickly swiped at the nearest one It plopped to the ground and didn’t move

Not that it should I mean, it was electrical wire

"You don’t think you’re overreacting, do you?" Jak’s breath ar presented a threat, but he still wasn’t taking any chances

"Can you feel a breeze?" I swung A snapped toward us It retreated

Definitely not the behavior of inert wiring

"No, but --"

"Then telllike they are"

"I’m sure there’s a reasonable answer, but fucked if I can think of it right now" He paused "Maybe we should leave?"

"What ic inhabits these wires doesn’t also inhabit the ones that control the elevator?"

"There are stairs --" He yelped and ju forward

I caughtaround, A around like aup his leg It was the piece I’d sliced– but don’t hurt Jak!

Won’t, she said, as flaain, and raised a hand to batter her away, but I grabbed it

"She won’t burn you," I said "Just stay still"

"There are flames near my nuts," he shouted, his expression one of horror "You stay still --"

"Jak," I cut in harshly "Trust ulped and stoppedSweat beaded his forehead as Aly around the two-foot snake of wiring stretching froroin When the last of the snake was covered, her flaone, and there was little evidence of its presence on Jak other than a few scorch ic bitter, Amaya commented Hate made

Lauren for sure, then I still had to wonder why, though It made little sense for anyone to want e for Lucian’s death Unless, of course, both she and the other sorcerer – if indeed there was another sorcerer; we still weren’t entirely sure about that, despite the fact it had definitely been a male who’d snatched the first key fro two of the three hell gates open I guess, if nothing else, it wouldhell’s h the effort-to-reward ratio see about a pair of dark sorcerers Maybe they planned to hold the world for ranso equally insane

I released Jak’s hand "You okay?"

He took a deep breath, then nodded "What the hell are we going to do about the wiring? Severing it doesn’t stop it, and there’s toodown for us to do a proper search of the room without risk"

"True" I turned around Amaya, are you able to burn a path between here and the bed?

She didn’t answer, but fla a six-foot-wide avenue between us and the bed The reer or frustration