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Jane will not stay in Beast for worried

"What’s okay?" Eli said into the headset

Inside nized/remembered, one that pu from her now and I shook ," I whispered to Eli There wasn’t time to explain a roup

Brute chuffed at the spoken word and leaned againsteased "Brute?" I asked, rinus still here? Can you find him?"

Brute dropped his head to the floor and took a step into the bloody rooht, and I turned it on, a tiny, narrow beaht The wolf andthe spatter, never leaving a print I tried to be that careful, but I wasn’t as comfortable with my paws as Brute ith his, especially in half-Beast forns of fighting, his nose to the floor, his breath a snuffling, whuffling sound, toward the stairs where he paused as if confused, and finally led us around the corner We found the first body there, a huender or immediate cause of death There were too ht, too many scents on the air to let me know by ss It was so I had never seen before but could instantly recognize L’arcenciel teeth and fangs had done this That or an alligator, grabbing and shaking its victi its dinner apart But this person hadn’t been eaten, justI heard the chugging cough of a generator starting, and the tiny security lights I’d installed along both sides of the hallways began to glow At le around his neck and indicated the body "L’arcenciel?" I nodded and he asked, "The hatchling Soul was talking about? Under coercion?"

"Maybe Probably But the arcenciel s"

Eli didn’t co Brute

"Yeah," I lied "He’s just ducky" I nudged the ith a knee and we moved on, the olf in the lead by a head, his shoulder in constant contact with hts showed me too much Another body, mauled like the first one, farther down the corridor A body part half in a doorway Things I didn’t want to see, smells of people I knew mixed with the stench of bowels released in death There was no one left alive in the foyer or the hallways that veered off No one to rescue or save

This had been only recently done Peregrinus had folded time and killed the people in the house next to Katie’s, folded tiain and started killing people So ht at ray place, place Soul calls Gray Between

I remeht

Gray place, Beast derinus was doing things outside of tiainst "Holy crap," I whispered "Eli We hand painful I pulled Eli and the wolf back through the foyer and into the weapons rooth to rip the metal door off the s the weapons that had been kept there, waiting for their owners to leave Owners thatso he could see out, into the foyer

"The arcenciel can affect tih for an aht when ti else is slow"