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"Hey, bitch," George stepped forward, her voice sharp "Where is Eduardo?"

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The skin on Nick’s arreen whips shot out of his arht of the Order opened herin a huh all you want" Bahir drew back his hood

"You!" Samantha hissed The djinn had to have felt his presence, but seeing hie

"I live, creature I aic around Sa into an invisible tornado Her face turned dark, her eyes glowing like two embers

"You have no power to defeatmy ears "I wish for the power to destroyme backward I flew, fell, and slid across the floor and rolled to ht Bahir in ht in the funnel of a s thickened, her spine reached up, her ar a forest of teeth; her ears lengthened; her eyes pivoted in her skull, turning into pools of orange fire The ceiling parted above her, revealing a cage suspended by a thick chain In the cage Eduardo grabbed the bars and recoiled He looked like a ghost

Salowing at their tips, and bellowed

The gaggle of men behind her shivered, morphed, and a pack of leonine creatures snarled in unison, spreading s Manticores Shit

"Clan Heavy," Curran roared "Take out the ed, screa above the floor

"Take your places" Curran’s voice cut through the snarls and growls "Reiantess A ed to the side The claws scraped my scalp and then a thousand-pound polar bear leaped aboveinto theI kept running

Samantha’s enormous feet loomed before ht araped overknife into the side of its neck, freed the blade, and stabbed it again Hot blood spurted over me

Suddenly, the manticore vanished, jerked aside I rolled up and saw Adib bite through the beast’s neck with his jaws Fire dashed down his ht sparks fell off his furry sides

I ran for the giantess On the other side, three knights were et in position

I pulled the small vial of iant had healed his injuries This one would heal even faster, and I probably had only seconds before the ifrit regenerated her body, so this et a second chance

A black viscous liquid coated Sahtly sweet odor saturated the air The djinn had covered her in crude oil to keep us fro, but not fast enough

I drew Sarrat A huge foot rose abovein long scales over the skin I dashed to the side and spun about as she stomped and crushed the vial ofto the saber’s e, crimson and unnaturally sharp

Above iantess’s face, like a hawk, and he sliced her cheek with his burning blade I caught a glie

The giantess swatted at Bahir, trying to grab hi I was even there

Thank you, Bahir I charged forward and slashed across the back of the giantess’s leg The cri yit Bye-bye, Achilles tendon

The giantess bellowed and kicked at ht as I could and instantly kneasn’t far enough Curran caughtus to safety The foot round He twisted and threw iantess We’d practiced thistook over I landed on my feet, sprinted, and sliced the second tendon