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The stor to kill you," she screae rattled with increasing fervor "You’ll experience agony in ways you’ve never dreamed possible, for I will do to you what I’ve done to so rater and stuff your organs into a blender to make a smoothie I will donkey punch your skull so hard your brain will ooze out of your eye sockets"
"Idon’t kno to respond to that"
"Don’t worry Soon I’ll cut out your tongue and use it as a cleaning rag--you’ll never have to respond to anyone ever again!" A rock skidded into his cellthe first of an avalanche, rage and grief giving her the strength that centuries of imprisonment had surely stolen
I’m wrecked He’d robbed this wo but pain and misery
Story of my life
He wished his next deed would kill him but kneould only ed his resistance to the de Disease to rise up and infect hiined He clawed his way into his chest, scooped out his heartand rolled it into Keeley’s cell
CHAPTER TWO
KEELEY WASN’T SURE how many days or weeks had passed since the warrior had offered his still-beating heart as a ift the darkest parts of her had actually appreciated All she kneas that he’d spent the next however longup pieces of his lungs
Sickened by his own de had dulled the sharpest edges of her rage, she still planned to kill hiht thing to do Don’t you agree, Wilson?" she asked the rock that liked to watch her every move
He remained silent, always silent Cold-shoulder treatment was his specialty
She wasn’t upset by his attitude They’d never really gotten along
"I had plans to free Mari, you know I only needed time Just another feeeks, in fact" Or months Maybe years Time had ceased to exist But Mari hadn’t cared about herself--she’d cared only about Keeley
The girl had knohat Keeley was doing to herself day after day Well, ht word She’d suspected And she had hated the thought of Keeley in any kind of pain So Mari, sweet Mari, had decided to act, to take Cronus up on his suicidal offer and procure Keeley’s release the only way she could Despite Keeley’s protests
"Cronus didn’t even keep up his end of the bargain," she explained to Wilson Mari had died upholding hers, and yet Keeley had not been freed
Hatred burrowed deep inside her, taking root in the darkness of her soul and feeding on the rich soil of her bitterness So much to do First she would take care of Torin Then she would do to the king of the Titans what she’d once done to Proht He hadn’t blessed the world with fire How laughable But he had tried to engulf every inch of it in flahed with enerated and fed it to a flock of birds" Day after dayyear after year
Zeus, of course, had taken credit for the deed But not this time