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"Angel Tit’s on" Wrassler coughed, the sound hoarse "He’s trying to call out Get help Friends at the Marine Corps Support Facility on Opelousas Avenue Water," he said to Eli
Eli gave hiood right hand With Beast’s hearing I could tell that Wrassler’s heart was beating far too fast If we didn’t get him help, he’d die, and soon But if we took him for help, others would likely die
"Where are Sabina and Bethany?" I asked
"Sabina’s off-site, at her lair in the graveyard," Wrassler whispered,"BethanyShe was here," he said, sounding dazed "She’s hurt She wasshe was shouting about riding the dragon The arcenciel She was crying bloody tears" Wrassler stopped to breathe again Eli gave hi out of his ic I saw her fall"
"Taking her ic" I didn’t knohat that rinus had put the crystal onhad appeared and he’d turned his attention froether This was about the Gray Between, and the ability to fold ti power for later use Any vaical ability from other supernats, and who had access to stored witch power, on top of the power of ical icons, would be unstoppable
Access to the White House The Kre, anytime, anywhere And no one could stop them
"What do you want to do, Jane?" Eli asked
I didn’t knohat to do This was " This was h when you don’t knohat the ene stored here Sub-four That here it attacked Wrassler My head felt like it was stuffed ool We had no coms, no security, no electricity My breath sped up and the palle with hyperventilation
I said, "Peregrinus has all our security info, building plans, Reach’s thoughts and guesses about what’s on every level" I banged my head on the wall once, the sound soft and hollow "He’s had a week to play with it all A hen the elevator’s been doing strange things and the electricity’s been wonky Peregrinus probably even has the stuff I changed after I heard about Reach"
"The brownouts and the electrical troubles," Eli said "Peregrinus caused the?"
"I don’t think so I honestly think that’s just the old electrical systerinus wants soet to without help, unless he can override the syste to see if he can get in remotely And he can
"There’s a safe on sub-four, probably filled with , no matter what Leo said" Sweat trickled down my torso Beast pressed a paw onto ht cal The discomfort cleared ical fishhook out and thought about our attacker "It --the troubles started after he got Reach--but I can’t prove it" I looked down at the wolf, atching me with the kind of patience canines show for the hue I patted his head and rubbed his ears while talking to Eli "I want you to take Wrassler and retreat Get us sohters Shooters We need Sabina and her weapons"
"No, skinwalker, Enforcer, pest" The words hispered with the hissing ssss of a snake, and an electric shock zinged through e weapon in two hands again, scanning back and forth, trying to find the source--because it hadn’t come from one of us "You need only me," the voice said "And that obscene charether we can ride the arcenciel"
Frouessed the speaker The more-than-half-crazy priestess "Bethany?"
She appeared atvaht, her skirts swirling, stinking of her own blood, the cut on her neck frolistened with an internal light that orse than spine-chilling It looked like a tiny candle flame was lit inside her skull There was blood around her mouth and I smelled both va people down to heal herself I stepped between Bethany and the guys
"Leo is in great danger," she said, her er Grégoire is in danger Katie is near unto true-dead There is no one else to save them but you and me"
She pointed to the charm I had hooked into my T-shirt "With your charht the Devil with ic until you are free to do so Then I can charhters ait you to save the Master of the City And together we can protect the reward I bestowed upon ive us the arcenciel?"
"No She is solid I will ride her She will be ht But, under the circuht another time I pulled out the small charmed fishhook and stared at it Then at Eli "Get Wrassler to safety Get us so with the crazy vamp lady, and hope she really knows that soh to help" Beast, I thought I need more of us toI don’t know Just s twisted and broke I landed on ht thatwhite round Then my body snapped into an arch that threw back my head I body-slammed the floor All breath was squeezed out of my chest
My eyes were open, however, and I could see Eli, watching, possibly with a look of concern on his face Yeah His mouth was turned down on one corner Maybe Just a little If I’d had air in hed