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She sed hard, hearing the dry click in her throat "So you’re saying I should be able to see ghosts?"
"Ghosts, and other things Vas, but we can’t see beyond the here and now Walking with death the e do seems to rob us of our ability to look beyond it" His voice hardened slightly "Just be glad I was sent by someone who cares what condition you arrive in"
His words host--not that she are of anyway Her night ly drea strange about the tattoo that throbbed and burned upon waking But the nightood--it was just there, an unfortunate part of her That her life now see in the balance because of it see that would help anyone," she insisted, pushing back against the beginnings of despair "And this"--she swept her ar your queen is going to want froestured to the tattoo she’d tried so long to hide, now exposed as half of her thin sweater hung in tatters "You wanted to kno I got this, what it means I don’t know that either!"
Tynan’s expression clouded as he looked at her mark "Yes We’ll need to sort that out first, I suppose The mark is… unusual As are your abilities" He didn’t sound happy, and his honesty surprised her, but it was obvious that her objections had done nothing to deter hih it cost her to even speak the lie "Maybe I don’t want to knohat it y she’d awakened so brutally still twisted and roiled, inore She didn’t kno to use it, how to control it She never had And now that it had been unlocked, it would begin to look for a way out again
"Damien doesn’t scare easily," Tynan said softly "But I saw fear on his face Fear is only going to erous to you, because what he fears, he’ll work even harder to destroy You need protection, Lily Whether you like it or not"
"What if I flat-out refuse you?" she asked, trying to keep her voice steady
He arched his eyebrow, and his gaze went to pure steel "There is no refusal I’d think you would have figured that out by now If you continue not to see reason, then I takeea vampire would have I’ll take you to Arsin&ou in the face of a pharaoh gets you Then you can find out what the Queen of the Ptolemy and her court think of your little sy yourself And if you fail at what you’ve been brought for…" He trailed off, his voice dangerously silken
She was glad he chose not to finish the sentence
Lily glared at hi, Tynan? What if I can’t have visions, or whatever it is you think I should be able to do, and I’m just so this Da to kill me if that happens?"
Tynan shook his head slowly "No He’ll consider tonight a personal affront I’ardless, you’ll have to stay hidden until he can be taken care of Iton howto listen to But my queen promises you a return to your life, your ho as you cooperate, this is an ione quite still, and his voice had a queer, flat quality to it, as though he were si he’d rehearsed many ti presence but strangely genuine His honesty about who and what he was prevented her, oddly enough, fro him the way she had Da hollow and false Lily stared back at hiaze never wavered fro Maybe about a little…
The hell of it was, it didn’t much matter The outcoement?" Lily asked "What is that to you, a hundred years or so?"
Tynan’s eyes went arctic "The alternative is to just give you to Damien once you’ve outlived your usefulness He’d find you in a heartbeat anyway Is that what you’d prefer?"
"How do I know I can trust you?" she asked, voicing her greatest worry This stranger expected her to run into the darkness with him She didn’t want to be his next meal
He smirked, but it was humorless, and Lily felt a chill as she saw just a hint of the remorseless killer in him
"You don’t, of course But you havehis hand to seal the agreement "I can’t bite you, Lily If you’re a true Seer, vaot a vested interest in preserving that An invisible curse stalks the dynasty I serve, the House of Ptolemy Without a Seer to show Arsinöe, the Ptolemy queen, who the source of the evil is, her people will cease to exist And if I fail to provide that Seer, or even if the one I find turns out to be er than a help, then I also cease to exist"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>