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A s all over his face entered the farthest building on the right The sign outside it read Heeling Tonacs & Xotic Elicksirs There That’s where he needed to be The s instilled zero confidence, but what other choice did he have?
Torin fit his new hood in place--his chest constricting as he reently Keeley had worked on it--and launched intohiiants strode down the street He iving hiet the warts off," Piercings was saying "I’ll pay twenty pounds of dia on the counter in front of hiet twenty more if you never speak a word of this"
"I have just the thing," replied a man--surely the pharmacist--as covered in tattoos "But it’ll cost you forty pounds of diauy had offered
"Thirty," Piercings said
"Done!" Tattoos replied
Seriously? This is where I’m to find help?
Torin wasn’t in the otiate As quietly as possible, he turned the lock on the front door and switched the sign to Closed He knew his own liiants at once without severe consequences, and considering the pelt store down the road, there was a good chance this pair of fine felloould want to skin hi to have to take one of thes The top of his head caiant’s back He palmed the blade he’d taken froh the male’s Achilles tendons
A howl of pain echoed fros dropped to his knees, and the entire building shook Torin reached around and slit his throat
The lifeless, bleeding corpse slumped to the floor
Torin stared up at Tattoos "I hated to do that, and I apologize if he was your friend, but as you can see, I’et what I want"
Tattoos narrowed his eyes "And what is it that you want, human?"
"I’m not human And I want a concoction for a friend who’s feverish and won’t stop vouy would do what he de poisonous to punish uy and my friend suffers or dies, I’ll coht away I’ll play with you firstuntil you beg me for the sweet kiss of death"
Far froe of the counter separating the coldly, Torin sheathed the weapon at his side Then, he began to tug at the fingers of his gloves "I want you to know, you chose this path I didn’t So Here’s what is going to happen next I’ to be infected with the saet to mention I’m Torin, the keeper of the demon of Disease? Once you develop sy to save yourself You’ll be too weak to stop me when I take it from you"