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Danii had gotten into Val Hall undetected Now I just have to get h a couple dozen Valkyrie lived here at any ti Most were nocturnal, as was Danii usually - it was cooler that way

Nix, the one half sister she wanted to see, was nowhere to be found

Upstairs, Danii passed theto Emmaline, her beloved niece But she knew Emma would be asleep as well It was day, and Emma was vampire Or half one No one kneho her vampire father was, and that infor, since her Valkyrie o

Gentle Eh a blood drinker, she was so timid that she made it easy to overlook the vampirism

Emma was the exception; Murdoch was the rule Just accept it He almost bit you

Danii reached her rooiant freezer, and pushed open the heavy insulated door A blast of arctic air and the coeration met her

She lived at Val Hall year-round But in the summer, even the meat locker - as her sisters called her room - was barely adequate for her needs

There si the door behind her, she gazed around the spacious area She&039;d decorated it with frost, glazing the walls with it Icicles dripped fro fan Valances of ice capped her s

She couldn&039;t say she loved it here, but she&039;d adapted to life with her coven Others could tolerate hours in the snow, but would seek a hearth at the end of the day Danii was the saht the comfort of her meat locker

Her slushy waterbed was filled with saltwater, which lowered the freezing point to below thirty-two degrees Above her bathtub was an icean Epsom salt dispenser On occasion, she had to add salt to the water so that she didn&039;t freeze it

Her ice-proofed conesium chassis and a sealed keyboard

Yes, she&039;d adapted And she&039;d felt soht I was safe fromund here It should&039;ve been the last place the Icere would look

The attack was another reason Danii was avoiding her sisters If she told the - and the But the Icere were an enemy the Valkyrie didn&039;t need

And one they could never find to defeat

When Danii had been a girl of seven, her ard, the Icere castle, to reclaimund Danii&039;s e of so , "If I don&039;t return to you here, you o to Icergard" She&039;d made Danii vow it

Svana had never returned Before she&039;d even mund had assassinated her - the er endlessly in peace with her young daughter in the godplane of Valhalla

Once Danii had grown old enough to leave Valhalla herself, he&039;d dispatched killers after her to prevent her fron As if she ever would

Over the centuries, she&039;d considered breaking her vow to herherself froard - rumored to be hidden within the Arctic Circle beneath a do slaughtered

Sigmund was perfectly protected froreatest weakness as his defense

Diamonds Svana had told her they dotted the walls and perih Danii was immune, most Valkyrie could be h, she rose She needed to pack, and then she needed to find Nix to ask the half s: