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"Get over it No le-edged swords Nor do you"
"Maybe not But at least I don’t go around--"
Barrons cut her off: "We have bigger proble absolute freedo signifies: if you’d knoould you still have asked for the tattoo?"
Jada closed her , yes, she would have taken his tattoo She quickly polished off the last of the chips and ripped open a candy bar, wondering where the Nine stored their enviable supply of food--and why?--it wasn’t as if she’d ever seen one of them eat
Barrons said, "After Mac used the spell, what happened?"
"The Sweeper and the wraiths vanished The Book pretended to be Mac at first and said that it had sifted them backward"
Barrons looked at her sharply "In tirimly
"Fuck," he said softly "If it can manipulate time…"
"We’re in a world of shit," she finished for him
Barrons was silent a moment then said, "Resunificant"
Closing her eyes, Jada re-created the scene in her head and painted the picture for him with attention to details that would have impressed even Ryodan
Half an hour from the abbey, Jada stretched and the cuff on her wrist pinched her ar she’d slid it up too far, she unzipped the sleeve of her jacket and shoved it back to reposition the wide arlowed as if lit by tiny cri it "Bugger," she muttered
"What?" Barrons demanded
The cuff she’d so easily removed many times in the past had somehow become a seamless band ofoff her own hand When she’d stretched, it had caught on her ar a tiny piece of her skin
"My cuff It’s closed It never was before"
"Where did you get it?"
"I took it off Cruce when I first arrived at the--ah, shit!"
"What the fuck?" Barrons snarled He hit the brakes so hard it gave her whiplash
An enormous red object had just materialized out of thin air It crammed the entire front seat fro her view of the windshield It edged in so tightly, the two of them were packed beneath it like sardines in a can She tried to kick up into the slipstreahtly co her focus swiftly, she sped up only her fists and began pounding the intrusion
"Jada, it’s not attacking us Look at it," Barrons snarled
She drew her fists in close to her body and shot hi but it" She barely had enough rooainst the seat, with a scant few inches between it and her face