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Bones replied soe to translate, but whatever he said , but only aie," I called out desperately Spade had been kind enough to supply us with a lot of weapons for our trip hoainst us Plus, he would reuse the knives, flinging them as fast as they could drop or bounce off our shields

The ghost's powers seereater than before Was it because of the closer proximity to Halloween, or because he was still really, really pissed over our attee of silver, trying toon the far side of the demolished room We couldn't afford to let our attention wander from the knives that seehost who could pop up anywhere around us in a blink, bashing our bodies hat felt like painful bursts of energy Even with how fast we moved, we didn't knohich direction the next attack would come from All Kramer needed was one lucky strike with a silver blade, and Bones or I would be shriveled

"You need to get the fk out of my house," Denise snarled

I hadn't taken my attention off the hornet's nest of silver knives around us or the ghost who could so ten rounds with an undead Mike Tyson, but then solanced over where Denise had been-and stared

Bones yanked ht for my cheek It landed in the wall behind us instead, but I still couldn't quit glancing back at the other side of the roohtened hiss and tried harder to hide in the bed and furniture pile

"Bones, she'sshe's"

I didn't say aze flicked over, and then widened as even his finely honed defensive instinct couldn't cause hi mass Almost absently, he held up his shield at the new influx of knives thrown his way

Cracking sounds of the ceiling giving way alerted Kra around When he did, the knives he'd levitated for ihost froze like he'd ed to croak

The bottoe creature now took up the majority of the once-spacious room, part of its neck and all of its head disappeared into the hole it had her than crocodile skin forn over the creature's body, darkening in color as they reached its quad-runner-sized legs A tail wider thanover the broken bits of furniture scattered about the roo, flexible barricade Two thick, horned hureen wings that took up as left of the rooh they were only half extended Their spiked, clubbed ends stabbed holes in the carpet as the creature appeared to use thereat body Then er hole appeared, quickly being filled by aIts jaere as big as the bed, saucer-sized crihost while scales like a headdress flared out behind it

"Denise, you have outdone yourself," Bones murmured in astonishment

I still couldn't form words yet Yes, I'd seen Denise shapeshift before, once into a cat and once into an exact replica of me when she acted asof this nitude Not ten feet in front of on One that looked straight out of the on seemed to be only about two stories tall and I think the one froes to breathe fire, I thought in nuht actually pass out

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