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Jenks rose up, clearly enjoying being the center of attention "Because elves don’t have bits of the Goddess bonded to them like Rachel does"

I scrunched dohen the narrow-faced woman pinned me under her stare "How does this iic? Can you tap a line?"

The rest of the table was beginning to stir uncomfortably, and I winced

"I’ "I’m more than happy to take you and Rachel out to lunch to discuss this in further detail, but we need to come up with a course of action and I still don’t knoas decided"

I touched his foot with et on with this et this , excluded from as once his domain I think he missed this more than the money or the notoriety

Jenks dipped a cup of coffee out of my own cup "Yeah, we have to save the world first before you can work on your next paper--Professor"

"Okay" Trent scooted his chair up, hand touching his breast pocket as if looking for a pen "Landon is using the situation to try and kill the vah their lack of a soul His ic so as to eliminate the threat of demons and witches--all to ensure elf survival I simply fail to understand how Cormel can still believe Landon has his best interests in ht, his sone "I think everyone is more scared of a world without ic"

Clearly used to runningnotes "With the combined support of the coven and the enclave, the dewar can reinstate the Arizona lines with the energy fro ever-after"

Al lolled his head to the ceiling "Lie," he drawled, and Vivian bristled

"It is not"

Al’s head dropped, and he found her eyes "You wish"

"I agree," Professor Anders said, the sureness in her voice garnered fro with know-it-all peers "The Arizona lines are dead You can’t reinstate theone It’s impossible to reverse a physical reaction like this; therefore, you can’t reinstate lines I don’t care how big a collective, dewar, enclave, coven, or energy source you have"

Al’s attention slowly slid to her, taking in her stark lines, her pigheaded confidence, and her utter refusal to be afraid of hier into her aura

"It would be far safer to find a way to shove the undead souls back into the ever-after," the wo look at Al

"The ever-after is a hell," Ivy spoke up, her voice ragged alrumbled

Professor Anders laced her hands before her as if there was nothing more to be said "I’m sorry, Ms Tamwood, but your kin is cursed If it’s a choice between thes clattered as Ivy’s eyes slowly blossomed into black "What did my mother do to deserve to be cursed?" she said "What did I do? How htened of death!"

Al shrugged, nonchalantly signaling Mark to make hi thes drooped "And the world goes with theht watch on Ivy "We can’t allow an end to the ever-after, even to prevent the undead souls froic"

David tapped the table with a thick knuckle His hands were looking rougher these days, and I wondered if he was eet that part Why would Landon want an end to , Trent rubbed his forehead "Because elven ic isn’t entirely dependent upon ley lines We have an open foruic users left if the lines go"

Might He said ic as well? Or ic either? The distinction was important

"What about Weres?" David asked, understandably concerned

"I think you’ll be fine," Trent said, but David didn’t look convinced "Weres and leprechauns also use the Goddess’s energy to shift and perfor"

Not pleased, David sluh to shift already"

"What about pixies?" Jenks asked

"I think you’ll be okay," I said, but worry that he wouldn’t made the coffee sit ill in me Landon wouldn’t care if the pixies died out in his bid for elven superiority Hadn’t he learned anything from the history texts?

"There’s always the chance that if he can’t reinvoke the Arizona lines--"

"He can’t," Professor Anders interrupted

"that the Goddess will also lose her access to reality" Trent’s lips pressed together in thought "She won’t be happy about that," he said, and Professor Anders dru in the Goddess at all

Vivian set her pen doith a sharp snap "I was going to advise the coven to support Landon, but this changes things"

"You believe in the Goddess?" Professor Anders scoffed, and Trent bristled

Vivian si to the elves’ ability to draw on a separate band of energy not collected in a ley line to perforht still be available if the lines were dead Calling it a deity is no skin offthe rest of Inderland hostage Once the lines end, everyone will panic They’ll give the dewar anything and everything to reinstate the to make the woman wave a hand at him

Trent seeun believing in the Goddess hi for certain," he said, "but Landon wouldn’t risk losing the lines if he wasn’t confident that he’d be able to continue to perforle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>