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"Then let’s get on with --" she stopped, and her gaze widened a little "That lanced down at the shifter "No He’s ood" She cleared her throat, then added, "Let’s get to these stones Although I’ the barrier around this building, because that is way beyond my capabilities"

My eyebrows rose "You can sense that?"

She nodded "Although it has an energy that feels rather weird"

"That’s because it was created by a dark sorcerer, and designed to keep me out," Azriel co, nor will it harood," she repeated, then paused, her eyes narrowing a little "In case you’re interested, the source of the energy see, which is rather odd Shielding stones usually have to be placed at each corner for thelanced at Azriel If the source is underground,

Possibly What we need to discover, however, is what this buildingstones and the transport gate you found There has to be so else here He paused, then added out loud, "Be careful"

"You keep saying that," I said, amused "Anyone would think you don’t trust me to look after myself"

"Well, you do have the unfortunate habit of stepping into trouble" His voice was dry "And remember, I cannot help you if you find it here"

"I have Amaya We’ll cope" I dropped a kiss on his lips, resisted the urge to do a whole lot more, then said to Rozelle, "Followtoothe floor

"Well," Rozelle said, her gaze narrowing as she stopped several feet away from the inky wall that masked the stone circle "That’s particularly nasty, isn’t it?"

"Yeah" I lifted my hand and showed her the red et too close, either"

"I wasn’t intending to" She handedit warily She stopped close to the back wall and said, "Okay, here’s the sorcerer’s point of entry"

"How can you tell?"

She glanced at me, her expression amused "Because I’m a witch and that’s what I’m trained to do" She walked back around until she was standing on the opposite side of the circle to the doorway "We shall make our entrance here Our sorcerer is less likely to sense it My bag, if you would be so kind"

I handed over the bag "Won’t he sense the break in his aze h"

"Then do it"

She drew out her athaed on the ground and began the incantation to create the doorway

After several ap that was about two feet square had formed It revealed not only several black stones but the concrete and hed and opened her eyes "That is the best I can do The spell around these stones islarger, it may be visible to our sorcerer"

I frowned "Surely he’d notice the fact that there’s now no shadows around one section of his circle?"

"No, because it was designed to be visible to only you andfor intrusion, he will notice the threads I have woven into his ic"

"A chance we’ll have to take Thanks for your help, Rozelle"

She nodded, but didn’t move "I’ll wait here, just on the off chance you need me down there"

I frowned "I’ if so, and we pro into my circle," she replied, amusement in her tones "I made sure of that Go I’ll be safe, I pro her free of her circle – not soth of the barrier she’d raised – I had no other option but to proceed

I dropped to my hands and knees, took a deep breath that didn’t do a whole lot to bolsterjuht flared down her sides, shifting the shadows and glea off the metal stair rails I walked over and peered down All I could see was deeper shadows

So what? That there’s soic, she said So, but that really wasn’t an option Not if I wanted to find the keys and save Mirri Ilianna ht yet be able to unravel the cord, but I wasn’t about to bet Mirri’s life on it I gripped Ahter and cautiously headed down My footsteps echoed on the metal, and the sound reverberated across the thick silence I bit , as each step took me farther into the bowels of the earth and whatever it was Ale" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>