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If Julie was trapped inside the Guild, Curran had to be with her Why wasn’t he out here, fighting? If Curran was inside, the giant should be dead Was he injured? I’d seen hiet inside

I shoved the cresting fear aside Calm washed over me If Julie and Curran were inside, then the fastest way to help theiant I could panic later

The heat eround strike No way through that door either I had to get up to his level, and all of the neighboring buildings were too far to et him to chaseshot, but I had to try

I took a deep breath and screanoredhairy dimwit!"

The colossus peered blearily to the left His face used to be human at some point Traces of it still reish dark hair But his lips were peeling back, revealing sharp inhu as I watched, their corners creeping up The brow ridge curved outward, overshadowing his eyes

He was still transfor what he would look like at the end of !"

The colossus turned away, swinging around and offering ht shone in his left earlobe, a s orange, as if burning froence in the eyes, just a kind of dull, stupid rage

I tried one last time "Sixty-five feet tall and your dick is still tiny!"

No reaction This wasn’t working Either he didn’t hear iant swung forward It looked like he was about to bend forward Oh no, no, let’s notOh iant peered through the fourth-floor , straightened, drew his tree-trunk thick arm backward, and punched the upper floor of the Guild Bricks flew His feet glowed brighter A dark metallic sheen crept up his calves Tiny bursts of fla hu by those feet, that s, but I had never seen that The aic that would be required for the iant su

Kill it first, sort it out later

A man leaned out the third-storyand fired two crossbow bolts into the soft tissue under the giant’s jaw The creature roared, slapping at him with sudden speed He tried to duck back in and lost his balance The giant paled and fell with a wet sickening sound The giant raised his massive foot and stos climbed another foot If he turned completelyfield and fast

The only other way into the Guild was through the back door Normally it was locked and barred fro

I pulled Cuddles to the side and sent her galloping through the street Buildings flashed by A left Another left People ran past me and on, into the city I shot out onto the cross street, jumped off Cuddles, and ran around the corner to the back of the building

A twisted wreck that e truck at some point blocked the back door, its cab twisted and caved in A led black sedan lay on top of it, and a wooden cart on top of that He rabbed whatever vehicles he could find on the street and piled theainst the back door Smart

Ten feet above the barricade, a boarded-upinterrupted the wall It must’ve been a functionalat one point, because so one now, but the steel brackets and a section of the frame were still attached

This was a very stupid idea Cli duck If that thing realized what I was doing, I’d have nowhere to go Not to mention I had no idea as behind that wood If it was solid wall, I’d be in trouble It didn’t iant bellowed Bricks flew above the Guild like a meteor shower I ducked behind the corner and watched theround The last chunk bounced off the paveed into the open and backed up