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Double threat--no choice but to portal! Sing back blood, she began to open a rift, a small scalpel cut in this reality She tried to concentrate on her holed in her thoughts
Opening, opening With a yell, Thronos started sprinting, snagging a sword fro
When the centaurs charged behind him, Lanthe scuttled backward toward the threshold
As he ran, Thronos kept his gaze locked on her, even as hedoard cut with that sword Why would he?
The blade ca fro from her mouth The Vrekener’s crazed She twisted over to her hands and knees, now scra and murk Definitely not Rothkalina
The overcast day of the prison island flickered into this rainy world like a flashlight’s bea for her
She commanded the portal to seal itself Just as the sea beside her
As soon as the rift was no rowls and hisses sounded frorated, "Have you taken us to hell, sorceress?"
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Thronos struggled to get his bearings--while biting back his rage over what he’d just seen
His female, maimed By her own kind He wished he’d had time to liberate all of their heads fro his new surroundings They were on a small island of rock encircled by water that looked like ht Soh he’d traveled to foreign planes in pursuit of his nize this one She could’ve taken them anywhere Thronos despised her portals; every time he’d seen one in the past had ain
A ht, a razor-sharp fin slicing through waves "Yes We’ve gone to hell," he said, just as a green serpent surfaced to the left
Melanthe would be creating another portal directly But not to the Skye--he would never give her the directions to his hidden home, in case she somehow escaped him and decided to portal an enemy army there
"Make another threshold back to the mortal realm," he ordered her "Somewhere in Europe" He knew she couldn’t talk--blood still spilled froet to work
Once they were away from here, he would question her
How did you make the Pravus sleep, and why not rieve that sorcerer I beheaded?
"Be about it," he snapped, unused to repeating his orders When Thronos led troops of his knights on Pravus raids, no one dared disobey hi over her sli his "Do--it--now"
--It’ll take me five or six days to renewtill then--
He jerked away, gri from the feel of her words laid directly into his mind So that was how she’d coht back, he could tell she’d had to feign hesitation under the threat of that blade She’d had a plan, and she’d been desperate to get that torque re reminder of what she was But at least she could coenerated He knew he could reply the sa the ability But he refused to allow her entry into his thoughts, had developed mental shields specifically to block her "How many other abilities do you possess?"
--Alas, only three-- Was she lying?
"If you have power enough for telepathy, then why can’t you open a portal?"
--Just because I’ve walked for ued--
"Your powers eed --Telepathy is second nature Cutting a rift into realitynot soability "And your persuasion?" Could she use it only every few days as well? Once she was strong enough for a threshold, she ed sword He was in the same position as those Sorceri, could trust her just as little
The loss of her collar was a grave one
--Persuasion is unpredictable-- In the rain, she rubbed her chin over one pale shoulder, s from her elbow into a rivulet of runoff --It tends to cohten s she could persuade hiet her? Even as his rational ht, Maybe that’s exactly what should happen, his instincts rebelled
His body rebelled Would it remember that Thronos was never to take another?
"There " They couldn’t be trapped here Soe Of course he perceived danger all around, yet his main sense was of expectancy
Because he ith her?
--I have to wait several days, for me to create myself a threshold for me to use You’re sol--
So, unless they could find another portal or a Lorean who could teleport, they were stranded "Where are we?"
--I don’t know-- When the rain intensified, she started shaking even harder With the a in this weather And regeneration was punishing on the body
The wind picked up, bringing traces of scents His muscles tensed when he smelled lava, corpse rot, and Lorean blood Copious amounts of it "Of all the realms, why did you pick this accursed land?"
She slitted her eyes at hi from the corner of her lips --No one forced you to coet to complain about the destination!--
"Answer me!"
--Sometimes I can’t control what door I open! Especially not under pressure--
He exhaled a breath He’d best figure out how to keep the what ht a high plateau stretched between them