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Slowly, Mitchell rested one clawed hand on the ground, leaned forward, and dipped his head A thick tongue slid from between his teeth and scraped the trace of blood off ht burst in his mouth, a beautiful fire, as if he had sed a tiny yellow star The veins in his neck ignited with fiery radiance It dashed down his blood vessels to his heart, through his body, to his lier, stronger,his forHorns of fire spiraled out of his head His eyes flared with bright orange, as if an inferno burned inside hiarded ic explode inside hih the clearing, snapping branches Mitchell shuddered and collapsed back into his old forined it Maybe I did

"Holy shit!" Luther barked

Nope, I didn’t

Mitchell raised his head His eyes were still on fire

"Take it!" he whispered

The fiery eyes burned into ic stretched between us, woven with power and heat It touched es swirled A cavernNo, the inside of a half-collapsed building The floors had fallen down and only the outer walls reh the holes in the roof A hue, thin, his clothes torn and bloody Eduardo Ghouls Dozens of ghouls below, blanketing the floor with their bodies

A surge of light and fire, as if someone had slit reality open and cosh, heavy-jawed,the cheeks and the brow So huolden hoops, one after another A collar of gold inset with bright green jewels A olden core like an e

Eyes of fire, filled with arrogance and insanity

A voice rocked through my mind "You’re weak You will die The betrayer will die Your city will kneel beforefor you Start praying"

The vision tore apart and reality took me back into its cold embrace I blinked and saw Mitchell’s feet as he dove into the burrow

"Wait"

I felt soht between the shoulder blades I held still, crouched, one knee to the ground

A second crawled by, painfully slow

Make yourexploded out of the bushes I pivoted and saw a ghoul in o

I rolled ontoits mohoul’s belly, driving it forward over round I flipped and lunged at the ghoul just as it ed to turn on its stohoul tried to rise and I grasped the sides of its head, shoved it doard its spine, locking the vertebrae, and twisted Its neck broke with a dry crunch like a twig

The ghoul gurgled, shaking In a enerate the neck

"Clear shot!" Luther screarabbed the rock I used to call Mitchell and shoul’s skull Tiny drops of blood flew I pummeled its head with the rock as fast and hard as shell, the bone fragments caved in, and I crushed the soft brain underneath with houl went lilared at me from the darkness One, two, threeToo round Behind rowth rustled The sound of claws and labored breathing chased ht up, his arers rigid, and forced his arloirled around hirabbed the crank of the ers curved like claws Dark roots burst out of the ground in an explosion of dirt cluhoul to the left ofin a clump of the vines Luther thrust his other hand in the air Another ghoul screamed