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The Book ducks and twists froainst the wall I try desperately to turn my eyes to the left, to see how badly I’ve injured Barrons, but the Book doesn’t cooperate Froain, and heave a sigh of relief The last time I’d driven o, so painful, that everyone in the office, including the Book, claps hands to ears, wincing The hellish, crystalline sy crescendo I feel the horrific vibration deep in in to crack with the sound of thunder rolling, the floor beneath ins to shudder, and abruptly it collapses beneath us in an explosion of glass

Clawing air, I plunge to the dance floor below and slam into the floor hard My body rolls, scrale of humans and Seelie who tralass

Barrons hits the floor a dozen feet away, landing on top of a club patron brutally decapitated by a sheet of jagged falling glass Slipping in blood, he bounds to his feet and roars, "Where the fuck did she go?"

Lor crashes into a knot of screa it with his weight

"She vanished again," Lor snarls

"Find her," Jada shouts from somewhere in the slipstream "She took the spear back We have to stop her before it’s too late!"

They’ll never find me I’m invisible

And the Book already has ly steered into the night, I try once again to exert control overCast away the spear For whatever reason, having the spear et rid of it

Nothing happens I can’t influence redient? And what didn’t Barrons tell me? Why didn’t he warnto iure out soure out how to h I knohy he didn’t tell me The saive h on my plate, and I do Either that or he anticipated what I didn’t: that the Book was siain, and any inforet, too

And it was playingBarrons near me in the first place? I know the Sinsar Dubh is the ultimate deceiver Why did I blithely allow Barrons to take ht back into the middle of the people I cared about? I should have known better!

Why do I keep falling for its deceptions? And why is h to override the Book’s beliefs? How does its force of will continue to supersede mine?

It occurs to me the answer must lie within the very definition of its nature, and ood It’s evil