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"Doesn’t everyone?"

Okay, then "Do you knohat it does?"

"Most assuredly"

Well, no one else did "Tell me"

"It works in conjunction with three other artifacts The Cage of Co Eye I’ll need all four to do the things you’ve asked, but that’s not a problem because I knohere they are I stole theo and--"

"Actually, you don’t knohere they are My friends and I found them"

"Wait I want to make sure I heard you correctly" She leaned forward, flattening her hands on his thighs "You already have theh the leather of his pants, and he hissed Too h

Need more I need more Must have th to set her hands away from him He would pay her when the tiently--but he could allow nothing else to happen between theain It would be his downfall

But what a way to go

"You don’t need me," she said with a pout "You can find the females, the deceased and the box without , "We don’t kno toin the world, including the most desired object in existence, as well as open a portal anywhere in this world or another, and yet you don’t kno to proceed?"

"Explain Please," he added "What is the most desired object?" The box?

For a otten it? Even for a moment," she said, reverence in her tone "He’s part of a war he doesn’t even understand, which means, thanks to my spies, I have answers to questions he doesn’t even know to ask"

Please don’t retreat mentally

Thankfully the clouds cleared a second later and she added, "You’ll have to give the artifacts to irlfriends without theue? "Fine They’re with the other demon-possessed warriors All of whom you must vow not to kill Or harm in any way Or let anyone else kill or harm"

A pause Then, voice devoid of eht rain pattered

Well, hell What’d I do this time? "They won’t"

"How can you be sure?"

"I won’t allow it"

The rain stopped as suddenly as it had begun Had she thought he would stand back and watch his friends attempt to fell her?

Never