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Silently, I asked, Beast?

Beast is here

Do you knohere Santana is?

No Angel Hayyel knows Santana kills and eats his prey

I thought about that for a moment, not quite sure what to do about the fact that Beast knehat an angel knew Okay, that’s scary And worse, Santana was eating his prey Like skinwalkers did when they went insane and became u’tlun’ta And Santana had tasted Immanuel’s blood--Immanuel, whom I had killed, who had been u’tlun’ta And whom Leo had not drunk from Leo’d had no idea his son had been eaten and replaced by a different being

Diaht at me Will take you to vampire killer

"Joses son of Judas Iscariot," I said, pronouncing it Yo-sace, son of Ioudas Issachar "Joses Bar-Judas" Yosace Bar-Ioudas "Joseph Santana"

Nothing happened Bruiser lifted one brow, Leo-like, and asked, "Blood?"

"It’s always blood, to you people"

"To Mithrans You are el oversight and me in pelt instead of skin, but h ertip, letting the blood dribble on the weapon, the three hairs, and Santana’s blood "Joses, son of--"

The world exploded in white light and gray energies and we entered the Gray Between My gut roiled and twisted and the nausea that hit was fiery Seconds passed in the Gray as my abdomen kinked and coiled