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He took another breath, this one"Yeah Okay I’ coms from off-site, so I don’t have access to the remote joystick for the dyna in the hallways Just a word of warning--don’t go down there I had to turn off the video I need to scrubdown there that’s gonna give htmares and warp my sexual development forever"

"Yeah I’m real worried about that" Not

"How bad are you hurt?" he asked "Do you need to shift?"

I blinked and looked up Right He could see ht at her She didn’t reply, and I had to wonder if the blast of ht the Gray Between, the place where ics rested And it wasn’t there Icouldn’t sense it at all Fear twisted throughthe action to cover my reaction, I pushed myself to ut was roiling, and I retched, the spas space of tiht side I’d had a housemother who used to say that, at the children’s home where I was raised I wasn’t sure how that related to the sickness I experienced after folding reality, but it wasn’t bad advice I ain

With the toe of my boot, I tapped the scorched vamp-killer The blade shivered and split, sharp shards of steel flying up and tinkling down to the ainstcacti It was all I could do to keep froony eased, keeping silent for the Kid Moisture leaked into the silk lining, feeling cold and slih he was not yet of legal age, I knew better than to treat Alex like a child, and since I knew he could see my face, I answered honestly, "I’ve had better days Continue" As Alex talked, I opened theand pulled out a roll of self-adhesive sticky bandage, fashioning aso I could keep the arm in place The material was black, like my leathers Eli liked ear was plain white, stark black, or army camo In this case, the color would make my injured condition less of an issue until I could see to it

"Sub-four floor is caling either Wait He’s heading down"

"Down to sub-five?"

"Yeah And caet them back on systeel Tit was on duty" Angel Tit was Derek’s best coether, but he was out of town and new people oire right behind You better hurry" Grégoire was the best fighter the American Mithrans had and was utterly devoted to Leo He was also Leo’s right-hand boy toy

Hurry Right "Keep runted again, sounding re brother I sheathed the stake I had dropped, unaware I had even drawn one in the fight, found a bottle of water in , and took a sip to moisten my throat I wantedonthe bottle, I pulled a handgun, one with an arip, so I could hold it in ainstand ain

With the elevator out, I wound h the ballrooain, then around through the walls and back down In the past feeeks, we had mapped es and installed electric lights with battery backup They were low-maintenance, low-level illuhts down one side of the stairs, though sohts, one on either side of the casing

Alex caot reports of, and I quote, ‘aht?"

"Yeah," I said, my voice low so as not to carry as Iat the bottom of sub-five, the fifth-floor subbase air, vamp and human, and lots of it From sub-four I could hear sounds that lethappy and well fed I adjusted the grip on the weapon and gasped when I joggled the right ar with that Beast should have sentin the back ofon a rock floor, licking her paw pad Right front limb, just like mine Yeah She was hurt, but I’d have to deal with that later Hang on, girl

"Jane?" Alex said again "There are reports of a white wolf joining the chase with the gangbangers"

I hesitated an instant A white wolf had to mean Brute We hadn’t seen him in weeks So how did he know a vamp--that vamp--was free? Brute had bitten Joses Bar-Judas the last time I’d seen hithinga else to worry about later My list was getting really long

I succeeded in getting the pocket door on sub-five open, and light andthe clay floor and the bodies, their vampire and huain

Leo was kneeling over thees in the roof of his mouth, his eyes like black pits in bloody sclera Leo was scary, but after seeing the Son of Darkness in all his nificent horror, Leo looked nearly huht, and Leo whirled to me

His nostrils flared and shrank, his lips pulled back, as he smelled/tasted , claw-like "You are injured," he hissed "I smell your blood, your burned flesh"