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"Tellbreath and pulled away from her embrace "My father said he’d killed her I had no reason to believe he lied but --"

"You came here to check anyway" Ilianna sht in her eyes "We didn’t break the collar, but we did beat the bastard at his own gaave us the idea, actually" She rose, dusted off her knees, then offered me a hand

I accepted it, and cli me up, but there in case I needed him

"Or rather," Ilianna continued, "our discussion about creating personal wards and using the wearer’s life force or aura to power the devices"

"I’ the connection"

Ilianna smiled "Neither did we, not at first But once we realized the cord hadn’t tapped into Mirri’s aural shield, it was then a y from"

"The source was its creator," Azriel colanced past me and nodded "Yes And as Risa had pointed out, I’d learned enough of the ic to subvert her father’s wards to our own use, so it was si the appropriate threads in the collar and rerouting those"

She ard appearance and tired stance of all three wo but

"So when y rebounded back to him"

"Which would explain the fierceness of the explosion," Azriel commented "It wasn’t just Amaya"

"Explosion? What explosion?" Ilianna said

"The explosion that killedour home is the price we have to pay to rid the world of that bastard, then good riddance, warehouse" Her voice was grih her expression gave little away, I had no doubt she knehat had happened

"The key is lost," she said, iate is open"

"Yes"

"Oh, fuck," Ilianna said