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Closingup in a steady streaet the fire into the sky, but not as quickly and at the nitude he could with my help

"That’s it," Aiden said, his skin hot under ers

I openedthe elements was still new to me Fire, a vibrant shade of blood-red, pulsed over Aiden’s hand and exploded outward in a massive ball Wind blew my hair back fro toward the wall and back to the ca the birds in its path The blaze wasn’t natural, but a product of the aether that Aiden carried inside hi of dust behind

When most of the birds were destroyed and only a feere left to dive-boo of his wrists Only then did I see the faintly glowing glyphs on my hands No one but Seth could see them, but they still made me feel a little weird when they came out to say hello

"That was so Resident Evil," said Luke, his eyes wide "Awesorin, a little breathless "It was kind of Alice awesome, wasn’t it?"

Luke started to nod but stilled when a Guard flew past us, ar birds off his back He frowned "I’ll never look at a bird the sa hiuessed was a hawk off the back of the yelping Guard The haisted in his grasp, and I got a good look at its face The thing’s eyes were all black--no pupils or irises, just like a dai crack that followed Once the aniod, there was just no undoing it

Several Sentinels staggered to their feet, battered and cut, but no one had gotten it as bad as the tho’d been by the burnt-out cars on the access road and were most likely blindsided by the birds

A shiver snaked its way down ers on hs Tiny hairs rose on my body All aroundinto our skin My glyphs swirled, changing patterns and for!" yelled a Guard near the top of the wall His white robes flapped like wings in the wind

I was kind of expecting a griffon to coate with enough force that it rattled the massive structure and split open the skin of the assailant

It was a daimon

Face as white as the Guards’ robes and veins as thick as black snakes, the dai blood off her hand, Olivia shook her head "What is it doing?"

"Other than rearranging its face?" I flinched as it slary"

Daimons were pure-bloods that had become addicted to the aether in the blood of pures, and only within the last year we’d learned they could also turn halfs They hat originated the whole va Dionysus had done, most likely when he’d been bored

Most of our probleods’ boredom

Another daimon joined in, then another, and another Each tiate, I flinched Their exposed flesh was ate, able to pick off two of thehly allergic to titaniuh it ater They burst into shi blue clouds, one after another, but aze went to the sides The hinges eakening

Idozens and dozens of daiate Aiden su several of theate until the fire consuood

But a frightening realization occurred When I’d been all Team Seth after I’d Awakened, I’d learned he and Lucian orking with dai with them The daimons could be here because of Ares, or they could be here because Seth was co Either way, it was unlikely that this many would just show up in thein the Catskills

"We have to do so as he turned to ? Like you did with the auto I should do the saers My hands shook, and I hoped no one noticed "I can’t proate out in the process Maybe if I could get outside, slip up behind the" Aiden stalked forward "They’d be on you in seconds"

With all the aether inthe dinner bell, but if I did get out there, I could do soot out of hand My h, which was so unlike o, I would’ve been scaling those damn walls

Sentinels don’t show fear

All I knew right then was fear

More slaerously

"Open the gate!" shouted Aiden, grabbing a shoulder of a Guard "If they break the gate, then ill have an open wound to protect"

"That’s insane!" argued the Guard "If they get past us--"