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"Cut it out, Roman," Tracy snapped "She needs to be alive and conscious"

Ro-ram and then du because with this gate I can be a summoner as well Then I won’t need those fuckers at ESPN or anyone else" He backed out of the diagrah and shifted my attention to Tracy "Is that what you told him? That’s hysterical"

Roman’s eyes narrowed but Tracy just shook his head "Don’t listen to her, Roman You’ll see for yourself in just a few un and then lifted his hands, eyes unfocusing briefly Queasiness hit raies, but I was quite sure that he was getting things started

Roman smiled "I’m not a suh to allow ate That sensitivity is one of the reasons I was drawn to you, though I didn’t realize it at the time It wasn’t until I ured it out He’s the one who told me I didn’t have to sit on the sidelines And after the Syly laugh "You were an obvious choice"

The queasiness grew a fraction, and Tracy’s forehead furrowed in concentration Clearly he was expecting so, Roestured around ht?"

"Don’t listen to her!" Tracy snarled A bead of sweat trickled down the side of his face despite the chill in the building "She is a suer to open than I expected" His eyes snapped to mine "The focus You destroyed the focus" His lip curled "Doesn’t matter I can still do this without it"

"But you still need a su a hell of a lot more casual than I felt

Roman shifted, frowned "Are you sure about this, Tracy?"

"She’s a godda his face "Now shut the fuck up and letto suck Hard "If I was a sura," he said Then he sneered "Badly, too You’d be torn apart You wouldn’t risk that"

"You’re right," I said "I wouldn’t" Coht as I walked out of the circle

Okay, the first step alking, the second and third were stuone as soon as I was past the outer perimeter, but I fell to my hands and knees in front of Tracy and puked on his shoes anyway

He gave a shout of horror and disraasted "I know you’re a suhts to fall properly into place "And even if you’re not, the wards should have dropped you"

Shakily, I wiped ot back to my feet "Yeah, well, I’ood boy and shut this thing down before sounshots came to us fro on Tracy "You pro at me "It’s impossible I had you assessed There’s no way you can si a summoner" He shook his head "We don’t have a choice They make sure we become summoners"

A weird chill ran downabout? Who’s ‘they?’ "

He gave a dry and tortured laugh "The lords Coured this out? If your dad hadn’t died, do you think you’d have ever become a summoner? You wouldn’t have been mentored by your aunt--who conveniently left Japan and returned here in order to raise poor, orphaned you"

The breath froze in my chest "My dad was killed by a drunk driver"

Tracy snorted He was beginning to recover his coht Have you ever looked at the accident report? I have He shouldn’t have died in that wreck"