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Cain laughed "He gave up that right a long tio What can he do to od as well? I od of the earth, too, since I’oes there, and I’ive a shit about what happens to it He’s like a child who has built a city of blocks and gotten bored and walked away"

"Leave Now I can have your access to this area revoked"

"Sure you can If you change your ht, I’ll welcome you and yours into my dimension"

"If we act, there will be consequences"

"There always are But soel in the lobby If they needed the warrior class, he’d come around The deel on his way out, and a blush crept up her neck

Hadrian found an unlockedand crawled into Dayne’s cottage The wards he had weren’t up to snuff to keep a vampire away Instead, it had drawn him like a beacon It was only the fact that vamps preferred the city to the forest that kept the sorcerer and his little kitty therian safe

An orange cat sat on the kitchen counter, green eyes intense, hissing at hie house cat Hadrian put a finger to his lips "Shhhh," he said The cat glared but let hiot danker and darker as he went down When he reached the bottoh slats in the weathered wood There was no need to get involved if Dayne couldn’t do the spell, but fro it

The sorcerer’s circle was set up, books and tools were out The cute brunette with the short, choppy haircut stood to the side out of his way It was anybody’s guess how long Dayne had been chanting, but his energy looked depleted Good for Hadrian

As the sorcerer continued to chant, a light eiant projector onto which iic Greta gasped Dayne opened his eyes to see the spell had worked and what had instigated the gasp

Hadrian Fully iic screen with Jack It was now or never The va Greta and holding her in front of hiun at her throat, but his fangs were out and ready should he need to call them into action

Dayne appeared disoriented as the spell collapsed around him, but he didn’t harbor any doubts about what he’d seen "Why have you betrayed us?"

The va down on all of us It won’t be just Cary Town It’ll be this whole planet by the time he’s finished I don’t want to live in that world"

"Jack’s world will be worse"

Hadrian shrugged "And ill deal with Jack I don’t want The Cycler in power either, but he has no organization The vaanization for centuries now Our nu Our leader is about to take away all of our freedoms for his own personal reasons"

"Anthony has to protect his daughter," the sorcerer said "And noith the threat froht not see it, but what I’ is better for us all"

Dayne’s face betrayed his fear for Greta, though he was trying to downplay it For her part she’d been extre about, just still and quiet as if he rip Unlikely But nice try He was surprised she wasn’t fighting hio"

Hadrian gripped her tighter "I’d erase both of your memories, but I don’t have that ability with a therian I want you to make a potion that will do that job for redients to s" He flashed fangs at Dayne, as if he even needed to put a point on the threat

The sorcerer was so depleted froic alone that he couldn’t even conjure an energy ball or a fireball, whichever his speed was Even if he had that ability right now, he wouldn’t use it The werecat reat shield

"Just do it, Dayne If we’re both dead, we can’t warn Anthony, anyway," she said

"The cat makes an excellent point"

The sorcerer turned to collect the supplies he needed, and Greta shifted In the change frorip on her She climbed over her pile of clothes and scurried toward the door He went after her, but a fireball whizzed past his head It hit the stone wall, fizzling with a hiss and puff of smoke It had come from Dayne, but it was small and weak and probably the only one he had left

"You don’t want to waste yourup the cat before she could get out the door She dug her claws into his arrowled and tossed her across the room She let out a horrible feline shriek and hit the wall, then stoppedher She was an innocent, not someone meant for his special brand of punishood

"Greta!"

"She’ll be fine Make the potion"

"I don’t know if I have enough energy left I need to take a rest"

Hadrian shook his head "You only need to h potion for one I have to wipe yournap to replenish your shields"

He picked up the unconscious black cat and sat on the floor with her in his lap "I could kill her quickly in this for to show up at Anthony’s next oing on Maybe your ic drew Jack, and he killed you Who’s to say?"

"I used strong protections It’s why I’lared while Hadrian stroked Greta’s back as if she were a normal house cat Hadrian did it to unnerve him, but the act also allowed hi seemed nor, bubbling concoction of so dark purple the vampire wouldn’t want to drink on his worst day

"Let ht it over, and Hadrian looked at the spell It was a spell to take the ht as far as he could tell sitting across the roo had been in cloudy jars after all--it was like some mad scientist’s basement The vampire nodded and passed the book to the sorcerer who put it back on the table and chanted the spell over the potion It was in Latin Magic users and their dead languages Hadrian was convinced it was for show to appear more mysterious Wasn’t that why the priests had used it for so long?

When Dayne brought the potion over, Hadrian took the goblet and held the cat’s mouth open to pour it down her throat

"She’ll be asleep for awhile When she wakes, she won’t remember," Dayne said

"She’d better not I’ll stay to be sure I’ll be putting you to sleep as well I’ll " It was unnecessary to expand on the threat He laid the cat on the stone floor and ic the sorcerer had done, taking control of his mind would be easy It was one memory he’d know for sure had been properly erased