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"Who are you?" I ask

He sets a small onyx box down on my bed in front of the other Pink

"Who is it from?" I demand

"You’ll see, dominus," he says Daintily, he extends a hand to the other Pink, who, confused, takes it and follows him from the room The door closes I’ it, and find a slowing "Take cover," she says

The power goes out and the door locks by default The rooh the clouds outside; thunder ru It is not the wind

Another flash of lightning and he appears, floating in the bitter storel ever shit out of heaven A wolfpelt hangs from his shoulders, whips in the wind His black metal helmet is that of a wolfshead, and he’s arht friends

Lightning Thunder again and this ti killers behind hi in the darkness, silhouetted by the crackling of the stored Quinn is there too

I duck into the sauna as Sevro touches the glass with a pulseFist after setting up a jalass ruptures inward The distorted sound of the storm follows them as they thump down onto the carpeted marble floor Wind whips at y Pebble, cruel Harpy, spindly, open-faced Clown, and all the others

"Friends Get up!" I bellow "You’re already short enough"

They laugh and rise Pebble and Clown rush forward and weld shut my metal door with plasma torches

Water drips from Sevro’s hook nose as he nods toward me, his helons Quiet, and so full of derision, he hefts a huge, heavy bag in his other hand And when he walks, he h it were a thing for weaklings and fools

"Lord Reaper You look like a Pixie ponce in this lady-den" Sevro sweeps into a theatrical bow after he places the bag atbelieved you were in dire need of your gorydaht you back from the Rim?"

"All of us," Quinn says "We’ve been here several weeks on standby She needed n"

An insurance policy I can’t believe I ever doubted her

In no world would Mustang help kill her father I realized during n that it had to be why she’s here in first place--to infiltrate the Sovereign’s fan’s suite, I re her own plans Now it finally clicks into place They were both playing their own gan wasn’t worried about aaot the better of her

As for Mustang, I knew she ith ave her froer My heart leaped in that moment, and I knew she’d find our way out of this

"Sevro" I smile and clasp his hand "Our ArchGovernor is--"