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He went down a ss behind He hadn’t anticipated her co out to the caves No one caer and pain of the place After this, he would put her stuff in a pod, so only he could open He should have taken the extra precaution to begin with She could probably curse hi as she had thatout her tongue sees of ical supplies, not sure what she’d need to do what he asked When he tossed them to her, she just stared
"You’re serious You really want ic? After you’ve spazzed out about it like you have?"
The de with the scroll in it
"What’s this?" She unzipped it and pulled out the parchment When she saas on it, she dropped it like it was a bag of live snakes, hissing and waiting to strike
She looked up, real fear in her eyes this time It was a reaction he couldn’t seem to inspire Yeah, it wounded his evil pride a bit What was so bad about this other guy that Cain couldn’t ames, he knohere the other one is He may even knohere I am I know him"
Cain shook his head "He can’t knohere you are And even if he did, he can’t get here He has no access"
She still hadn’t put on her clothes Now that he knew, he could never forget how old she was It hadn’t occurred to her to be e rebuffed She stood and moved toward him, determination in her eyes Her arainst hisIt was rare for a woressive with him without demon thrall involved And he wasn’t even in his super-pretty for herself at him, even with a death wish, was almost too novel to cope with
As offended as he was that she didn’t seem scared of him, another part didn’t want to kill her It was hard to kill an equal you were growing to respect If he succeeded and she begged him to keep her, would he? Of course not She was a new flavor of candy She’d be stale within a week, just like the others
Taled with his She pulled away, her eyes glittering with dark proic I’ve done I’ed yet It wouldn’t take that much work to killat attention, ready to ood on the pro her shoulders to keep her at arth "Put some clothes on"
She pouted "But why? Is thisyou? Why should you deny yourself? Iyou to keep et this over with"
He wanted to shake the life out of her, but then he’d be left with a er Ta "Look at the parchrowled Even as he gripped her, he was shifting into his deave off every negative emotion in existence Tam shrank back from the force of it, and he smiled
"I’ve never successfully fed in this form, so it’s pointless for you to taunt me--not that you would I’aze, getting her bravery back as she got used to the new energy around him "Eh I’ve seen worse"
He released her shoulders and took a step back If she kept surprising hiht lanced down and giggled It wasn’t the response afor, but when she spoke, he realized why
"You must have seven hundred pairs of pants"
In the shift, he’d ripped the demon who didn’t yet understand the size disparity between man and monster She unnerved him too much to be concerned ardrobe er picture," he said "Things are going to get ugly with Anthony after this He’ll use this to push his control further--in the name of safety I’ve seen humans do it a thousand times, and vaht need you in a war You proht help us find The Cycler If we destroy him, there’s no reason for you to die"
Tears welled in her eyes The ht the urge to coe come from?
"It’s not just that I’ht I can’t stand this eternal cycle It’s so lonely Every tio somewhere different, uproot oing to lose I can’t live like this anyain I just want to be happily oblivious to the truth The only way out is Jack or you Forgive me if I prefer your ht But I don’t want et away froht if Anna becah I just want out"
Given her suicidal kick, if Cainhim to keep her, to even want her life back, it would be ato do? Kill her anyway? He should Even if she’d be beneficial in a war, the teet her out of her death wish and only then deliver it was the kind of te There was a reason he ho and what he was, after all
He punched the cave wall, causing a mini-avalanche of little rocks in the space where he’d cracked it "I’ve had the saet how hard it is? But I don’t get an exit raoing to do so useful, just leave me alone"
Cain picked up the scroll and held it out to her "No I need you to do this spell"
"What spell?" she said, her voice rising in irritation
"Look at the scroll again"
Reluctantly, she took the parch down the list of names she’d tried not to look at before Blood In the little hearts beside her name A lump formed in her throat at the most recent name that had been crossed out Nao beside her in the cavern, agreeing about not adding their own blood to the potion It had been a sripped Nao what they were about to do or the events they would set in motion, all over the naïve belief that i
Tears streamed down Tam’s face She couldn’t hold them back any to protect her from a brutal death at Jack’s hands, but it had still happened anyway All that time lost