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"I’ my ID when a cop ca up on the corner, and I began to inch away before I was recognized Ivy, where are you?

The sound of pixy wings jerkedan eye full of pixy dust as Jenks dropped down "Da

"Tink’s a Disney whore, Rache, what are you doing here?" he exclailed to be heard over the rising noise

"Yeah, I’lad to see you, too," I said sourly, hand up for hi?"

He went to land, then darted back as someone jostled me forward My hand hit a la for a few extra inches as Nina’s voice rose clear and strong, a hard surety in her voice that she’d learned fro

"The peace is false!" she cried, the vaood part of the crowd to silence "Peace is death to the undead It breaks the It’s our duty to protect them as they protect us! They keep us safe, and now it’s our turn Even if they rage and threaten, wethey love us! Their souls will kill the has she been up there?" I asked, one arh" Jenks’s wings were shading blue from the cold, and he vibrated the vampires to protect the undead Not everyone is happy about it I don’t knohat’s going to happen if the elves bring their souls back"

Concerned, I clily, and my brow furrohen I heard a few "Let theotten already the chaos of Cincinnati not three ?

"You can’t deny them their souls!" the e of soht!"

"Is it not our right to protect theiven theive them their death! They’ve been tricked by the elves and their own desires!"

Nervous, I looked toward the river Trent was only a few blocks away at the arena and the closed dewarthe place No one could stop it with the IS and FIB concentrated here

"My master found his soul," Nina said, and the crowd stilled at the power in her voice Felix had changed her, alh hers for so long, and I shivered at the command "It was fixed to hie was silenced "It torlad the souls have fled Hide youronly pain"

"He eeping in joy!" the man with the mic proclaimed, but beside Nina’s impassioned presence, he looked cheap "Who are you to deny hian to stir "The grace of the undead is that they feel no pain, and he was in pain He was broken! Tell your masters the elves lie Tell your masters they seek to kill them! Tell theht You must protect them because they love you!"

The voice of the crowd rolled between the buildings, drowning out both Nina and the ot down from the pole I had to find Ivy and call Trent Get him out of there Warn hiht his sins hoht now to bring their souls back We can’t let the to kill our masters! He walked into the sun!" she cried in pain "He walked into the sun and now I a with every living vampire there They knehat it was to be alone They feared it The urge to rise up was alth of the undead and the passion of the living No wonder Ivy loved her

"My God," I whispered, jolted from her chariset Nina to shut up, even if I agreed with her The va to storm the dewar if this continued

"Yeah" Jenks landed on my shoulder "He’s over by the curb Where the horses are?"

I looked over the heads to where the h, there were two very unhappy horses, an FIB van, and a bunch of FIB guys clustered around soet the people out of here, aze roving over the square The huge vid screen was noing the Cincy arena The wind down there was intense, blowing the newscaster’s hair everywhere as the dewar began to break up and people began to leave My breath ca before the crowd decided elves were on a par with biogeneticists and lynched theet rid of the elvesSo far, only Felix had died, and he’d been on his way out already

"It’s God’s will they die!" the zealot was screauish "It’s penance for the atrocities they have perpetrated! Let theed!"

Jenks’s dust was a beacon as he hovered overfor the easiest path to the curb "Ah, Rache? Is that yourto see My fear redoubled as I spotted her standing on a planter, hand in a fist as she shouted and gestured, calling soious hypocrite zealot all in one breath She looked fantastic in her outrage, and I alht of her when the crowd shifted "Mout from some faceless woman "Mom!"

She heard me Somehow she heard me over the noise and confusion She turned, her face still alight with the fire of battling injustice Clearly this here I’d gotten it froht her way off the planter and tohere?" I said when she finally got close

"Oh, you ruined your funeral!" she ed her back "Mo she orried aboutas she shoved soen more room "The band crapped out on , I held her shoulder so no one would force us apart Marvelous wasn’t exactly the word I’d use Nina was on the bullhorn again So raptly, others-- I could tell ere the living vampires not only because of the way they reacted to Nina but because they looked terrified It was starting to slide from a mob to a riot "Jenks? Find Ivy My car is on Vine"

He darted off, o"