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She grabbed Mac’s black leather biker jacket and began transferring her y pod While strapping on the sword and tucking the spear into a thigh holster, she spotted the cuff she’d given Mac on the table by the bed
She had no idea why Mac had taken it off but she wasn’t about to leave it lying around She’d risked a great deal to take it Crossing the rooed strides, she shoved the cuff onto her wrist and pushed it up under the sleeve of her jacket
A charred stuffed ani from its slashed belly, watched her every move with round, shiny, reproachful black eyes
I see you, Shazam
She shook herself briskly E
She tucked the stuffing back in, tugged the edges closed and gently placed the teddy bear on a high shelf
Then she turned, dashed down the stairs and burst out the back door, into the gloomy Dublin dawn
She used her left hand, her sword hand, to trace the sa tornado surrounding Barrons Books & Baubles Black veins flared beneath her skin, licked up into her wrist, and her hand went ice cold Many years ago she’d stabbed a Hunter with the Sword of Light and soers She’d learned Silverside that her left hand cast better, stronger spells It often itched and tingled, and soht she’d wake up to find her hand cold and black Shaza scratched behind his ears with her left hand, clai it felt different, but when pressed for rumpy, cranky beast had merely flashed a Cheshire smile and refused further discourse
Shazainning or end, just a long, agonizingdeeply, she focused on her city
She’d not seen a single person since leaving the warehouse with the exception of Ryodan, and suspected Barrons was out searching for Mac, perhaps for her as well The streets were eray beneath a bank of dense thunderclouds Were it a nor any in the street, but any huht had either joined up and been killed or gone to ground, fearing a death march similar to the one on Hallohen the walls betorlds had been destroyed
As she passed the church where she’d nearly frozen to death, she scanned the black hole suspended over the rubble, assessing size and circuentle pull of distortion Mac had told her she could hearfro Jada couldn’t detect the faintest vibration
She considered her current proble lost, nearly half her sidhe-seers injured or dead, another attack on the abbey i and former queen absent, Mac possessed by the Sinsar Dubh
Banner day in Dublin No time to print a daily
It occurred to her that if they could find a way to control Mac/the Sinsar Dubh, itthat she’d opened the Book If they didn’t hurry up and find a way to patch the black holes on their world, or at least find a way to stop theedly the Sinsar Dubh, scribed by the Unseelie King, contained infor She’d pondered that allegation at length, not certain she believed it was possible because, according to all the myths she’d uncovered about the history of the Fae royals, including thehad never succeeded in re-creating it--so how could anything about it possibly be in his Book? Maybe the Book contained clues? Bits and pieces the king had collected hinting at the true nature of the song that, with Dancer’s help,of Dancer, she had to soone postal She wondered if he still checked their hidden cubby at the O’Connell Street Post Office, andshe didn’t run into hi up whenever she thought really hard about him
She eased up into the slipstreaher dis, people, their many messy emotions, disappeared beyond a beautiful, starry tunnel If only she could eat enough to maintain the metabolism to fuel it, she’d live in the slipstrea her world, unseen, untouched
She was nearly to Chester’s when she crashed into a brick wall she’d not sensed--which meant one of the Nine--and dropped back down
Scent caht: Jericho Barrons She ricocheted off his chest and went flying With those lightning-fast reflexes that could pluck her out of freeze-fra violently down the street
"Dani," he said
She tipped her head back and stared up into eyes black as e face Every hair on her body stood up on end, as if charged by a sudden surge of electricity He threw off the say as Ryodan She’d once crushed on Jericho Barrons violently Before she realized he and Mac belonged together like earth and sky, night and day, fire and ice She’d found tatters of legends about the Nine on soed to find an origin s and tales of nine , caain Unkillable, unstoppable, unbreakable, she hungered to be those many "uns" herself No matter the price She snatched her hand away and smoothed her hair "It’s Jada"