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Tearing aze away, I used the last of the salt to close the circle, dragging the point of the dagger through the ridge of lurid green crystals to seal it

Done

The effect of the funk didn’t vanish, but it began to dissipate I could feel the level of sexual tension start to ratchet down I scra perplexed, he reached out one bare foot to test the salt line with his toe, then withdrew it to consider his nextto hold hi I held up my left hand palm outward to show hier, indicating that I was Hel’s liaison between the worlds Mortals couldn’t see it, but the satyr could

If itto hier instead He tilted his head fro visibly

"Look," I said to him, "I don’t want to hurt you I just need you to stay put for a few minutes Okay?"

The satyr reached out one toe

"No!" I shifted into a defensive posture "I need you to stay! Do you speak English? Do you understand?"

The satyrwith slow deliberation, he reached for his super-size erection, wrapped his fist around it, and began to pump

Believe it or not, I’m pretty sure that meant "Yes"

Four

As soon as the satyr consented to his containhoul and his posse entered the nightclub with si- lent efficiency, spreading out to circle the peri frohoulish perspective, it rin, confusion, shock, outrageI couldn’t even begin to iine Okay, that’s another lie Actually, I could It was just better if I didn’t

The ghouls’ glittering eyes were half-closed in the diht as they siphoned off athe balance bearable

As for the satyr, his eyes were half-lidded, too, and there was a faint sreen salt and continued to stroke hiht satyrs were sort of half goat, half uy wasthe tufted ears that poked out of his hair and the long, luxuriant horsehair tail that jutted out above his buttocks

Beneath ave a syuy credit for just putting it out there Like, literally out there In a way, I envied hiiving in to it y, but at least it didn’t threaten to blow a hole in the Inviolate Wall

I guess thereironic in the idea of a prihtclub, but I suspect that the satyr was siest locus of desire in town I’d felt the effect of the funk, and although fertility and procreation ht be by-products, that wasn’t what it was about Even in containment, the satyr radiated a joyful vitality, a vibrant celebration of sex for the sake of sex, for the sheer, unated, nasty, down-and-dirty pleasure of it

Which I had been very close to experiencing with Cody Fairfax

Now that I was no longer in crisiswith a very vivid physical memory of the encounter Damn I could feel the bow I’d tied around

"Daisy" Stefan appeared before me, his expression neutral "If you wish, I can assist you"

"No" Wrapping my arms around myself, I shook my head "Iaround in ht now"

Stefan inclined his head "As you will" He hesitated "Do you expect the lamia to arrive soon? I fear that neither the control of my men nor the patience of the satyr is limitless"

"She should be here any ed boys," I added pointedly, glancing at the blond kid I’d spotted earlier "Or induct them into your posse or whatever you call it"

"Ah" He followed aze "You took notice of my new lieutenant Cooper is more than two hundred years old," he continued conversationally "He was hanged in the Irish Rebellion of 1798"