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She’d seen hier, he and several of Ryodan’sabilities, while Ryodan interrogated Mac His naood four to five inches taller than Ryodan, with a heavier build, he was easy to overlook; one ainst the one until he reee of shadow
"Fade," Barrons said, and moved quickly aith him As the two men spoke softly, Jada pricked up her ears, but they were speaking a language she didn’t know After several moments Fade issued a series of commands to the black-skinned beasts and they fell on the blob, snarling and slurping noisily
It took her a few seconds to realize they were eating the bloody skin off the thing in an effort to free as inside What were these dark, lethal beasts of Mac’s that she’d found in the Silvers that could i Fade? What language did they heed? More iht, when Mac had alerted her to their presence in battle, she’d watched the friend or foe Like the Nine, the beasts Mac had brought could kill the Fae--with no apparent weapon That made the of the spear…Jada shouted across the lawn to Enyo Luna, the tough young half-French, half-Lebanese wo a cocky band of hardened, militaristic sidhe-seers When the walls had fallen, Enyo and her wo to their nuht and a place to call hoht her way into the world, inside a military tank--the only safe haven her mother had been able to find--in a town in Syria under heavy fire Enyo had drawn her first breath in the midst of war and maintained that here she would also draw her last Draped in rounds of a, she loped like a graceful dark panther across the battlefield toward them In war, she was one hundred percent focused and co else she was unpredictable War kept Enyo’s restlessness and wildness under control, yet Jada was uncertain what she would be like in a time of peace It took one adrenaline junkie to know another
When Jada tossed her the spear, Barrons watched it fly end over end through the air, ain," Enyo said, catching and sheathing it in her waistband in a fluid movement "Does that erously soft "I’ve lost s Mac will never be one of the, for now," Jada told Enyo "Has there been any sign of Cruce? Do we know if the prison holds?"
"We’ve no cause to believe he’s escaped but haven’t looked I’ll send Shauna below to check"
"If you see any Fae alive…" Jada didn’t finish the sentence Enyo was alreadyacross the battlefield, watching for movement, spear at the ready
Jadathe beasts a respectful distance, and stared down at the thing that was being released from its crimson shroud Now that part of the fleshy cocoon had been torn away, she could make out the individual runes from which it had been knitted, and realized she had seen them before Mac once used a few to prevent the Gray Woo when she’d saved Dani froht Jada’s world had bottomed out and she’d been exposed as Alina’s killer
"It’s Fae Has to be a prince Looks like sos Brutally," Fade said
"Pure rage," Barrons murmured
"You think it was Mac?" Jada clenched her fists, forced the facedown on the ground was Christian MacKeltar He didn’t deserve this He’d had enoughcaptured by the Cri his uncle to the Hag’s cruel javelin Once he’d spared her fro himself It was a debt she didn’t feel she’d fully repaid
"I’ve seen her use these runes before They’re fro the princes If you hadn’t taken the spear, this one would be dead"
Jada glanced quickly at Fade "Where’s Christian? Have you seen him lately?"
He shook his head "Not for the past hour or so"
Barrons spoke to Fade again, in the sahtly, "If you don’t trust h to ith you Are we a country or are we islands? I make one hell of an island Your call"
"I told hilish?"
"I just did"
Fade issued another series of guttural commands The beasts rolled the Unseelie over on his back and resu off the runes
When the face was cleared, Jada released a soft sigh of relief She’d last seen this prince in a prison of ice, below the abbey It was Cruce, not Christian Then she stiffened "We’ve got to lock hiain!"