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"You’d be surprised what I can do I’m half-Fae, ree to carry hiht hiround, but I wasn’t Delilah with her athletic frath "Put away the gun; that’s not going to do any good, and one of us will end up getting shot"

He tucked it back in the holster "I didn’t think it would help, but I was feeling vulnerable, you know? Fro an armory, like Roz"

"Wouldn’t fit in your suit jacket, babe" I began to edge away fro too close for con of Morio or the others

I had to do so hit by any backfire if this goes wrong"

Chase kneell enough by now that when I said duck, he’d betterdown behind the y of the Moon Mother There were enough clouds that I was able to find the key for lightning As I summoned it, I prayed that I’d have the ability to direct the energy without causing le ran down through ers My e jolt of caffeine I began to shake Yeah, I was too tired for this, but we had no choice I could run, but Chase couldn’t, and I wasn’t going to leave hiet attacked by the bone-walker

As I took aiy bolt The blast ricocheted out ofsky It wasn’t a fork of lightning Instead, the spell spread out, blanketing a wide swath of grass and gravestones instead of just pinpointing the walking dead Like a floodlight, ht the bone-walker and knocked it on its ass The creature went flying back, landing hard, giving us precious tiain

Meanwhile, I heard so around in ti full leather ar a band of at least twenty other goblins

"What the fuck? Goblins? You didn’t say anything about goblins!"

"I didn’t know there were any here!" He looked as startled as I was

"Get that gun back out Bulletsthe energy bolt, on top of everything else Morio and I had done earlier, I fumbled for my cell phone We needed reinforce to be mincemeat

But before I could extract it frooblins were on us I yanked out ed the leader As I swiped, desperately trying to focus, Chase let off a volley of bullets and two of the goblins went down, though they weren’t dead

Panicking, I lunged for the goblin’s head and h to bounce off the bone I didn’t have the strength to drive the blade through his skull As he lurched back, taking y as I could I ed, trying to evadeI squinted, trying to see what the hell had just happened

And there, standing between oblin horde, was Smoky And he was pissed

Chapter 2

I didn’t interrupt, just pulled back and letI turned as Shade and Vanzir swept pastan extra dagger She tossed it to o, I would have dropped it, but I’d been learning a lot of tricks during oblin’s skull"

"Help Chase while I take your place" She pushed past ave way My sister was six one, athletic as all hell, and with her short golden shag and sentient silver dagger, she was a deadly opponent She winked as she passed by "I actually think I’ve oblin coh it oblin’s shoulder The crack of the gun ripped through the air as the sedthe safety on He slid his gun back into the holster I glanced around, looking for so that he could use as a weapon Then I saw it--one of the dead goblins had a sword and it was near enough for rab No doubt the blade was poisoned, but if Chase was cautious, he should be able to use it with no problem

I darted into the fray--which was now a ht--and picked up the sword, careful to touch only the hilt "You have gloves, Chase?"

He nodded, pulling out a pair of latex gloves "I always carry a pair just in case we run into evidence"

"Here, don’t touch the blade--ten to one, it’s poisoned and goblin poisons can absorb through your skin But it will give you soies at bay" As I handed him the sword, hilt first, he hefted it and nodded at ht unawares from either side