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"What do you want?" Leesha demanded of the creature, if only to buy a few seconds to think

The deht, knowing it was being spoken to, but unable to understand the words

Too duh to learnnoise filled the air, and the de Even Leesha had to cover her ears She turned to see Sikvah crouched, touching her choker and directing a screa as if froh to the clearing when the others could not?

Just then a speartip burst froic Tha the derew round The de a snake, with no ears to hear Sikvah’s scream

The last time it had taken the mimic several minutes to adapt to a sonic attack This one did it in seconds

It arned, Leesha realized They’re learning our tricks

The ht the blow, deflecting it off his shield Leesha drew a freezing ward in the air, and the tentacle holding Wonda snapped off and she landed on her back, struggling to get free of the binding ring of deet, Leesha raised her wand to blast the demon from existence, but the hora was drained, andklats, heedless of their effect The demon was alternately burned, shocked, frozen, and shoved, but it see in seconds to heal the da obsidian are of the carapace looked sharp, but none ed like shards of glass

A sweep of its ar the edge of his shield, snapping the straps fro li at Leesha, but Tha himself bodily in its path The wards on his armor saved them both, but he was thrown into her in the process Leesha felt his powerful hands lock on to her ar himself to take the brunt of the ioldwood

They clutched each other as thelifted it clear off the ground, slae of the clearing, holding what looked to be a luan to reform, and she sent another blast of power to knock it back down

Rojer and Kendall were at her side, fiddles keeping the corelings at bay as the da sharpened steel triangles into the deard the new threat, but Wonda had worked her knife froed to free herself Her fine uniforht with an to shrink back from the blows, and Leesha knew i, but to what end? The ht with The longer the battle went on, the greater the chance one of theht be killed

A blunt attack knocked Wonda back a few steps, all the time the demon needed to dematerialize and find a vent to flee back to the Core

Leesha closed her eyes, leaning into Thaave the killed by deain, it was a bargain

Thaer than necessary when they reached the carriage, and she turned into hi her arms around him She felt his chest expand as he inhaled the scent of her hair, and for a an to hope

But Tha fro a step back

"The child?" he asked

Leesha felt her stomach "Fine, I should think"

Tha eht his arm

"Please," she said "Can’t we at least talk?"

Tha," Leesha said "I love you, Tha else in creation, but never doubt that"