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She registered another scuffle breaking out in the roo In another instant, soan off her feet, and she rolled onto the hard floor, shaking her head to clear it Not a log, she decided Howser’s arher "It will get you nowhere" She sensed he had not moved from where she had last seen hiun blasted so close to Karigan’s ear she was partially deafened The ht staccato stillness Another shot rang out, and glass shattered and rained to the floor--Howser had shot out the light fixture

"Idiot!" Silk cried "Put that thing away--you’ll kill one of us!"

The door opened and diuards Karigan faded again, their odds worsening with reinforcements Noever, she could see them, but they could not see her

Silk whirled toward the tcoan suard into Howser The tent down The other guard gaped Silk and Starling an, but the guards were not

"What’s in here with us?" the second guard de to track her

Karigan stilled, realizing that though she was invisible, her ive her away just as Howser’s had in the dark As stealthily as she could, she crept up on the guard and wrenched his wrist back He cried out, and the gun clattered to the floor She kicked it away The guard grabbed after her, but she ht only air She snatched a clublike weapon from his belt as she went, and clouted him over the head with it He sank to the floor andover one another to regain their feet Karigan kicked and pounded them with the club to uard broke away, ran out the door, and did not return He would probably rouse the entire palace

Howser regained his gun and started shooting at rando on stone

"Idiot!" Silk cried "Stop firing!"

Howser et Karigan crouched, ears ringing frouard she’d knocked on the head attempted to climb to his feet, but one of Howser’s bullets hit him in the chest and propelled hiain

The next shot that blasted through the room was not one of Howser’s This tiliun and keeled over, hitting the floor with a fleshy thud

"I told hi still wrestled on the floor Karigan started toward theht help Cade

"Miss G’ladheon," Silk said, "I can’t see you precisely, but there is a certain darkness in my vision, deeper than shadow, that appears to be you I can shoot that shadow as easily as I shot Mr Howser, as, until now, a most sensible and reliable member of my staff I can also shoot Mr Harlowe" He strode over to Cade and Starling and kicked them "Do you hear le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>