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ZoeyStark couldn’t look at her He was too busy trying not to bust out laughing Aurox was totally wasted! And he’d just said vaonna shit kittens! The whole thing esome

"Aurox, how many of those have you had?" Stark pointed at the almost full red solo cup

Aurox squinted at the cup Stark watched hiers "One, two, three, four This is four, and I didn’t spill it, even though I juood!"

"My head is going to explode," Zoey said

"No! No! No!" Aurox assured her, sloshing beer all around the bad will happen Stark will et"

Suddenly, Stark didn’t think Aurox was so funny "Hang on--what hu for vampyre pussy," Aurox said, totallyon!" Zoey shouted

"Jeesh, Zo, take a chill pill," Aurox said "Me and Stark can handle it"

For just that instant Aurox sounded so much like Heath that Stark watched Zoey’s face pale Her hand went to the Seer Stone around her neck and she fingered it nervously

"Zoey" Stark spoke softly, trying to radiate cal on, Aurox is right He and I can handle it"

ZoeyStark turned back to Aurox Da like Heath He usually sounded and acted nothing like Heath And yet here was Heath’s spirit, all bathed in beer, shining through Aurox so brightly it almost blinded them

"Give me that" Stark took the beer from Aurox and tossed it onto the sandy floor of the field house Aurox watched it spill as if Stark had wasted water in the desert "Now, tellon"

"I drank beer with theood, and they were nice, but they shouldn’t be here I didn’t want to scare them and make theerated whisper again, "you know, et you so that you could et"

"There are human boys here somewhere?" Zoey asked

Aurox’s face scrunched up as he frowned at her "Not here Outside--out there" He pointed in the general direction of the door to the field house behind them

"Outside the field house!" she alood," Aurox said Still frowning at her, he continued speaking slowly, as if trying to get her to understand a foreign language "Two boys Outside the wall With the keg And cups They Want Hot Varabbed Aurox’s ar him toward the door and away froh that would have been funny as hell "You found two kids, with beer, trying to get over the wall, right?"

"See, you listen better" Aurox patted hi Stark over "But they’re just looking through the hole for vaet over the wall"

"If you say pussy oneto s after thes and tits!"

"Oh My Goddess I’ to kill him!"

Stark stepped between the two of theht red in zero-point-nothing seconds "Z, I think this is so that a Warrior needs to handle"

Behind hi over them

Zoey narrowed her eyes and pointed at Aurox "You have never been able to drink!" Then she spun around and sto the door behind her

"She see her a beer?" Aurox said

Stark covered his laugh with a cough "Ur, no Z doesn’t like beer"

"Doesn’t like beer? She should It would make her head feel bubbly and happy"

Stark didn’t bother to cover his laugh a second time "I wish it worked that ith her, but it doesn’t"

"Because she has legs and tits?"