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Trent shifted his grip onpace ot out before all this"

"I can’t see fairy farts," Jenks cos that don’t work, not my brain Put me on your shoulder, will you?"

So away again It wasn’t a pro start "You sure you can hold on?"

"Hell yes," the pixy gru to yell at Edden fro at Trent "Ah, I appreciate this, but--"

"You will sit where I put you and notuniforms and into the informal bar area "’Scuseht, but I almost lost my breakfast at the pain when Trent moved so onto it

"Edden," I called, and the man’s ears went red "Edden!" I called louder, and his shoulders hunched I debated sliding down and hobbling over, but Trent gestured for h the crowd to reach him

"This sucks," Jenks complained from my shoulder, and I waved at Edden when he looked atto broke up, and the short, graying, and overworked FIB captain reluctantly came over, hands in his pockets

"Edden, did you see Ivy and Nina?" I asked even before he got close

Edden glanced at the big glass doors, clearly worried "I saw theaze overonto try and stop Landon" He pulled hiot a non-life-threatening GSW!"

"Gee, thanks," I said, trying to s is still in her leg" Trent hovered close to keep people froency or should I take her home?"

Edden scratched his shoulder, his expression creased in worry "It will take an hour to get an ambulance out here How fast is your copter?"

"An hour!" I exclais clattered when Edden took ," he said distantly, evaluating ed" He let go of htened "This is worse than last time"

An unusually s to push her way through the taller people I heard a grunt and theher way ju her way closer and shoving people to make a space around o outside," she ns of shock "Why are there so many Weres here?"

"They cleared the hotel out forso, so I looked away, trying not to pass out If I passed out, I’d neverto be another The va pulled back to the ever-after, trapped in a universe that would soon shrink to nothing and die Cor to be pissed

I looked past Trent--now on the phone with a finger in his open ear--to the night-gloomed street Traffic was stopped, and the flashes of red and blue lights on the buildings were oet , and Edden’s entire demeanor shifted to a pleased wickedness "Seriously? Where is he, anyway?"

"Chasing down Landon" Edden alered, so pleased was he "He’s the one who called us in We got here before the IS Ah, if it’s any consolation, Cor to kill the undead"

"No, that doesn’t help," I said sourly, then jerked, pain stabbing me "Ow?"

The paramedic looked at Edden, not me "It’s still in there"

"I know it’s still in there!" I exclaimed, and Trent smiled as he put a hand over his phone

"Edden, the surface deone, correct?" he asked, and Edden nodded

"You need to get that leg looked at," Edden said

"I a a te

"Iin close, "by so about it"

I smiled hopefully at the paraency I don’t have the for out a bullet"

Trent snapped his phone closed He looked pleased with hile as his hand touchedI’ll take care of Rachel Where did they take Ivy?"

"I’ve no idea"

"Can you find out?" Jenks piped up, and Edden’s "I have things to do" expression softened at the worry in the pixy’s voice

"I’ll ask" Edden gave my other shoulder a squeeze He headed out into the et a naet the to take me to the same facility where Ivy and Nina were Or maybe he knew I’d never stay at the hospital unless I could hobble down the hallway to make sure Ivy was okay

The paraers over the Find soet that bullet re to ly Got it?"

"Got it," I whispered as she snapped her tackle box closed and went to tend to soer I opened my hand and looked at the little packet of pills I suppose it was better than nothing, and I took the glass of water Trent had reached over the bar for

"Thanks," I said, words garbled as I juggled the pills around on ue "You know there are a lot of people who need a medical copter more than me" God, they tasted awful, and I sed them down and made a face

"I’m sure there are," Trent said as he kissed my forehead

"Tink loves a duck," Jenks coht here, are you? Take me over to Edden He’s warm"

Edden was stuck in theback atThe Weres were beginning to leave, and Jenks’s wings tickled le one of the in the sa on?" I asked