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Vanzir and Rodney began to back up as a noise ca, of crackling fire and the screams of the damned

"A Demon Gate Telazhar created a Demon Gate!" Morio looked petrified "What the fuck--"

Caered to her feet A nasty lu to hurt a hell of a lot worse later on She heard Morio and, before I could stop her, was racing headlong toward Telazhar

Morio staggered after her, and I gave chase after hiain on the other side of the necrorabbed the deh to rip theh the roo his pants

I caught up with Morio and pushed hiht ic left, now’s the ti it on!"

A clap of thunder and the roo out frorabbed my arm and yanked

"Get the fuck away--you do not want to be in the hen the guest of honor coed ate I caught --please, don’t let it be Shadow Wing!

Newkirk lunged forward, blood pouring down his head One eye was hanging by the optic nerve, dangling on the side of his face He was clutching at his chest--holding the spirit seal A flicker of light shone froan to reverberate, and Newkirk dropped his head back and let out a crazy laugh

The figure e from the Demon’s Gate was a reptilian creature; he was nine feet tall and looked a little like one of the Sleestaks fro a lovely do of weaving tentacles that draped down his back like crazy dreadlocks His eyes were flat and black, if it was a he It was rather hard to tell I thought I saw a penis, but I wasn’t looking all that hard My attention was focused on the razor-sharp teeth and the claws that passed for fingernails He was a dirty olive green, and his gaze darted this way and that

Four shadows followed hian to fly off the walls and spin through the air Morio yelped and ducked as a chair went over his head all by itself

Next toson of a bitch, that’s Gulakah, the Lord of Ghosts! Get the fuck out of here or we are dead" He le lackeys "Get the seal! Now!"

Oh hell! Trytian wastoward Newkirk, dodging the creatures I was faster than they were, and as I pulled up in front of the Koyanni, a light shot out of the spirit seal, hittingacross the nearest table The dae on the floor Sles, but then Gulakah was suddenly in front of the Koyanni, led the dragons, Gulakah gutted Newkirk with one hand while with the other he ripped the spirit seal from his neck

"No!" Menolly raced forward, but Trytian tripped her as she went by, turning to the Lord of Angry Ghosts in her place He tried to snatch the spirit seal out of Gulakah’s hands, but one of the ghosts rushed through hi in a heap against the wall

Cay and it landed square on the deed to take out one of the ghosts Gulakah snaked his neck around to stare at her and, with a whi to race for cover In the nextout of one of thetentacles that he called hair, and it hit her in the back, sending her sprawling She screa, and Smoky and Morio flew to her side

Menolly and Roz were side by side, and they both threw ice boeneral at the same tihosts

Telazhar was heading toward the Demon Gate, and Gulakah, spirit seal in hand, followed him

"No--you can’t take that!" I leaped forward, but the next ate disappeared They were gone, and so was the spirit seal

"Fuck We were right Telazhar orking with Shadow Wing all along, and now he’s helping Gulakah They took the spirit seal Shadow Wing has t…no…" I could only whisper as the shaan to coet over here" S black and leechlike was affixed to her back It had eaten through the cloth "Motherfucking…what is that?"

Trytian sto Now neither of us has the seal"

"Fuck you and the horse you rode in on Do you knohat the hell is attached to Camille?" I shoved hiave , cold look but turned back to her "Devil leech You need to freeze it off her And I’d do so soon, or it will burrow through the flesh and take hold of her heart, and then she’ll belong to the enemy" And with that, he motioned to his henchmen and they strode out of the club

We sat there, in thecold over Caroaned She rolled over and slowly sat up, looking as bruised as I felt We’d all been sla Menolly

"Well…" The sudden silence was deafening and I felt like so "What do we do now?"

"I’m not sure," Shade said, "but whatever it is, I don’t want to make the decision from here in this club At least Newkirk is dead, and Van and Jaycee"

"Yeah," I whispered "But at what cost?"