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Ada sharply, audibly "What? Where? No, wait--don’t point, ka-lyrra Don’t even look at hiive me your back, then tell lanced at him She couldn’t help it--he sounded so alarain softly "Do as I said"

Jarred by the urgency in his voice, Gabby obeyed,him her profile, she rested her hands on a low stone wall that encircled an arrangement of sculptured shrubs and flowers and pretended to be enjoying the view Dropping her head forward so her hair shielded her face, she said clearly, softly, "He’s tall Copper hair, gold highlights Black torque and ar--"

"White robes and he has a scar on his face," Adam finished for her

"Yes"

"Gabrielle, walk away from me this instant and don’t look back As fast and far as you can Do it Now"

But, damn the woain The first time must have been a fluke; she obviously didn’t have an obedient, malleable bone in her body

She looked back at hi his face, her brows drawn in confusion

And was that a touch of concern in her lovely green-gold eyes? Concern for hih he was pleased to see the first hint of such weakness, at theShe’d just described Darroc and, if Darroc got his hands on hi an audience with Aoibheal--ever again And if Darroc got his hands on GabrielleAdaht Bloody hell, he hadn’t anticipated this! "Go," he growled

But even as he said it, he saw her face change She was no longer looking at hiht of and behind hione impossibly wide, and her face was bloodlessly white

"H-h-h--huuuunh--huuunh--" she gurgled

Adaht put that look on her face and --" she tried again

And if there were Hunters in the same place as Darroc, they hadn’t come for her At least not first There were thousands of years of bad blood between hih Council Elder, and he could think of little Darroc would enjoythe Hunters rip him to pieces while he was in mortal form Then and only then would he turn his attentions to the Sidhe-seer And his petite ka-lyrra wouldn’t stand a chance In Darroc’s hands, every dark and twisted fairy tale she’d ever been told would come true

He launched hier that he couldn’t see! Hoas he supposed to protect her? Whose stupid bloody idea had this been, anyway?

As his hands closed on her shoulders, so an ar her into the shelter of his body, wincing as so his eyes, he held her tightly and sifted place in a general southerly direction, pushing to the farthest limits his diminished power could carry hiain, arms locked around her

Railroad track Sift Grocery store KeepRoof of a house Sift Cornfield Sift Cornfield Sift Cornfield Sift Cornfield Bloody Midwest Sift Atop the steeple of a church with no way to balance on the narrow slippery spire

They began to fall, pluoyles, and he hastily sifted thely faster, without pausing for a breath, trying desperately to put as much distance as possible between his enemy and his wee,at the top of her lungs, but nothing was coht around her body; he’dshield

But that wasn’t asher choke on a screa Sort of One moment she existed, and then she didn’t exist, and then she existed again She didn’t like it one bit Each ti lots Cornfields A lot of those Suddenly on the peak of the slender, pointed spire of--ack!--a church, and falling! As the pavement rushed up to meet them, they were suddenly, blessedly, somewhere else

After a while, she just closed her eyes and prayed, trying really hard not to think aboutthe Books of the Fae had been about the Hunters