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"Wraith" Eidolon cleared his throat, but that didn’t rid it of the raw rasp in his voice "Do you think Sin and Con are dead?" Wraith let out a long, drawn-out breath, and Eidolon’s heart plummeted to his feet When Wraith finally spoke, his voice was strong and sure "I found evidence of a skirate Con hasn’t survived for centuries by being stupid, and Sin’s got instinct My gut says they got out"

Since Wraith’s gut was usually right, and it was all they had to go on, Eidolon let himself relax "Does Lore know?"

"Nope I called hio to see if he’d heard from Sin He hadn’t, but I didn’t tell him about the house Didn’t see any reason to freak hireed" Eidolon checked his watch Still several hours until , when Wraith would return hoain Not unless there was an eency "Can you do what you can to track Sin and find out who is behind the attack on Con’s house?"

Wraith nodded "There’s so else Whoever blasted the house used infernal fire I could smell it in the ashes" Eidolon’s sto Sin and Con" "What’s infernal fire?" Kynan asked

"It’s like underworld napalm," Wraith said "The shit is massively powerful, but what’s special about it is that it calls fire spirits in the flae of the heat," Eidolon finished "Its use is forbidden in the huetting caught and burned alive by Justice Dealers" Eidolon cursed "We have to find Sin"

"I’m on it" Wraith started out the door, but Eidolon stopped him

"On your way out, tell Bastien I need to see hi E with Kynan

Kynan’s eyes were cal As Tayla liked to put it, when you looked at hi the situation about ten seconds into the future "You calling the R-XR?" While functioning as a local Regent in The Aegis, Kynan had worked with the Ari in a regular Army unit as a medic

"They’re going to be in dahed "This is bound to spill over into the hue control as well I’ll head to HQ for a conference"

"What do you think they’ll do?" "I don’t know" Kynan ran his hands through his spiky, dark hair, ruffling it even s under surveillance tothe full " He laughed "Hoeird is that? Not long ago ere killing the them"

"You think Guardians will protect olves? It’s one thing to not kill them, but another to actively protect them" Kynan looked troubled "Yeah There’s been an incident that is going to ument a little harder" He shifted his feet off the desk, spread his legs, and braced his forearaze even sharper now, histo bear "A Guardian was recently outted as a olf Res that shifted during the new moon? Well, whatever she is, her cell put out the word and chased her into Canada They lost her, but one Guardian is dead On top of everything else that’s been going on in The Aegis…"

Eidolon swore Kynan didn’t need to finish the sentence A lot of as going on was Tayla’s fault Undercurrents of dissent had been filtering through The Aegis’s ranks over the fact that Tayla, a half-dee of a large cell Kynan’s e to Gem, Tay’s sister, had stirred the pot even o, Tay had put a vampire on the payroll--a Guardian na captured during an Aegis raid on a nest

Now Guardians were quitting, while others were calling for change This olf news could cause the already si things up," Kynan said, as if reading Eidolon’s mind "Tayla wouldn’t be Tayla if she wasn’t always in the middle of a shitstorm" And Eidolon wouldn’t have it any other way "You saved her life, E" Kynan’s gravelly voice was quiet "She was headed down a bad road, and you took her off it"

A sobering, pleasant warmth filled Eidolon’s chest cavity "She savedsap," Kynan said, as he shoved to his feet, and Eidolon nearly laughed Tayla had accused hi "If you need any help with Sin, let il and your rogue olf" Kynan left, brushing by Bastien on his way out

Eidolon’s dooras getting a hell of a workout today "Bastien Thanks for stopping by" The warg nodded,his mop of curly brown hair bounce into his eyes "What do you need, sir?"

"I just learned that civil war is breaking out between the pricolici and varcolac Do you know anything about it?"

Bastien’s fingers tightened on the handle of the toolbox he seemed to always have in his hand, but other than that, he showed no reaction "No, sir I have no contact with my pack anymore" "I just want to make sure you’re safe And that this won’t affect your job"

"You s who co moment, the olf looked down at the floor, and when he finally raised his gaze, his normally soft brown eyes had turned fierce "My loyalty is to this hospital, Doctor I won’t let you down"