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Geain "What… what brought this on?"
"The woether I know you have hundreds of years to live, and I can only give you a fraction of that withWraith and Serena made me realize that I can’t waste our ti as I have left"
Her eyes filled with tears, and fear cut hi to say before she said it
"I’s settle doe can see, but right now, I think you’re looking at the end and grasping at what you can"
"Da ?"
"Because so hi at the wall Outside, he heard a co prepared, of battle loo to take out his frustrations on a lot of demons, because the one he wanted… didn’t want hi that sucked about Jerusaleates There was one just paces from the Dome of the Rock, a temple that housed the Foundation Stone Byzaate, but it would be under the enemy’s control, and the next closest was on the outskirts of the city Which meant that Wraith, Luc, Tay, E, Reaver, and Ky had to hoof it miles to the Temple Mount
The city’s atmosphere was bleak The few people on the streets were silent, heads down as if they expected fire to fall froed in criround and thunder cracked
Wraith saw them in the distance Two aris would think their righteousness would allow them to come out on the victorious end of battle when they were outnu," Wraith said, and Luc took off like a shot No one liked a good fight
No one but Wraith
Reaver pulled Kynan aside and Eidolon grabbed Wraith "Hold up, bro Just a sec" He turned to Tayla and framed her face in his hands so tenderly Wraith had afor Serena "Don’t shift into your Shredder for you for the eneht in this one You heal That’s all" Tayla took E’s face in her hands and brought his ive them a moment of privacy He’d always made fun of their sappy relationship, had never understood how E could give so ot it Got it so well it hurt
He’d give anything and everything to Serena, if only she’d let him If only she’d live
He reached into his coat pocket, but instead of feeling up a weapon, which always soothed hirabbed it on the way out of the house, a good luck char into battle without
He felt two hands on his back--one belonging to E, and the other to Tayla She gave him a tentative smile "Good luck, Wraith"
With that, she took off
"Ditto," E said "I have faith in you"
"Sorry, not buying it" Wraith watched lightning streak across the sky, connecting the clouds in a celestial dot-to-dot "But I appreciate the sentih credit But I’ in you I’ve never noticed before" Eidolon spared the him in the shoulder "Kick his ass, bro" He set off after Tayla
Wraith watched the he had broad shoulders, because the weight of the world… sucked
Serena breathed deeply as Shade released her arht after Josh left, but Shade had done the glowy-ar that always made her feel better He backed away and stood near the door like a sentry, his shrewd, sharp eyes shifting between Val and David, who both sat in chairs near her bed
"You know," Val said, taking her hand in his "I really would rather take you home, where you’ll be more comfortable"
She shook her head "I don’t know if I could o anywhere until she knew that the amulet had been retrieved
And that Josh had survived
She still wasn’t sure how she felt about hie, so… awful But she understood why he’d set out to seduce her, and how hard it had been not to go through with it when he kneas doo position, and Val fluffed the pillow behind her back "Shade?"
He looked at her
"Josh--Wraith--said you and Eidolon were dying But you weren’t poisoned, right?"
Shade shook his head "Long story He didn’t even know about it until after the attack on Philae He’d decided not to go through with the plan to seduce you That’s e told hi, too"
God, he’d backed off his plan even earlier than she’d thought
"What difference does it make?" David asked "He’s a demon"
"He saved me from Byzamoth"