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"Mahon’s Beast Lord is a hard man who makes hard decisions, huh?"

"Mm-hm And who doesn’t have time for foolishness" Curran looked up "A car"

A ines It sputtered and died Julie’s blond head poked through the hole "Hello"

"Hi," I said

Julie’s head disappeared, replaced by her foot in the loop of a rope The ropeJulie to the floor of the cavern She wore her work clothes: old jeans, a black turtleneck, and boots A tactical to, the Kestrel tohteen ounces Its wide bearded blade tapered down to a wicked spike that curved doard, sharpened to a narrow point It was meant as a tool that occasionally could be thrown at rotten logs for fun Julie had decided to make it her weapon of choice None of htness of swords ood swords, balanced andthe axe, I tried to push her toward the sword and she resisted until I finally asked her why she dragged it with her everywhere She said, "Because I can h for , Voron, rave over the axe He’d dedicated his life to teaching me how to use a sword He viewed it as the perfect weapon But then Voron was long dead and I had exorcised his ghost out of my memory He still spoke to er ruled my life

Julie winced "Is that Eduardo’s car?"

I nodded Derek slid down the rope

"Okay" She turned to the half-crushed Tahoe "Ugly yellowish orangeGhouls A lot of theaze fixed on a point about six feet above the car Her eyes widened She s beautiful

"It’s like a flae or yellow More like copper"

"Copper?" What the hell registered copper?

"A goldish, silverish kind of copper," she said "There was an explosion of it right there" She pointed above the Tahoe "Like rose gold Very pretty I’ve never seen this before"

Blue meant human, silver meant divine, weak yellow oldish-silverish copper before What the hell was I supposed to do with that? It didn’t even sound right The creature registered a rose gold colorI’d get laughed at