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Grendel Curran ht hi spat the lifeless body and grinned at s and danced along his shaggy fur

"Good boy"

Grendel parked hied o clamped onto me and acid burned my throat Screw it I bent over and vomited Endorphins kicked in and for a brief moment the headache retreated

The lizards hesitated, their pupil-less eyes gloith cold hungry fire So y mutt was clearly outside their frame of reference

"Meat," a lizard ht the cry "Meatmeatmeat"

The lizards rushed me as one I carved and sliced, kicked, thrust, and stabbed Bodies fell around s snapped at ht Grendel’s flank in its mouth He snarled and I buried Sarrat in the lizard’s back Claws raked s I spun and sliced another beast An arrow sprouted in its throat Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alix behind me, his bow in his hands He drew and loosed the arrows in a s

"All hands, fall in!" a woman roared across the lot, somewhere behind the lizard horde "Fore here and a es Givefields of fire Act like you’ve been to a party before"

A foot Another foot We kept going My breathing evened out My nored the into reptilian bodies The horde tightened the ring around us They were keying on Grendel now, judging hi as I breathed

I chanced a glance over my shoulder Twenty yards to the Guild They would be a hard twenty yards I was about to throw up again

A lizard crashed in front of ht the reptilian bodies flew up and aside, as if bulldozed So down the battlefield

"What the hell is that?" Alix said

"That’s my honey-bunny"

Curran burst into the open, a seven-and-a-half-foot-tall ray fur Faint stripes crossed his limbs like dark whip marks Blood dripped from his clawed hands On the left side, a patch of his skin was rabbed the nearest lizard, twisted it with a loud snap, and tossed it aside "Hey, baby"