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"It was not in the part that split off and entered you"

"So, who’s supposed to sing it, !"

"Worlds do"

"What the fuck is your gaift MacKayla your half?" the DEG said

"To saveto lead the should"

"But it won’t," the DEG said "Save your race It will dooaze enco shoulder-to-shoulder; he’d aze--"is the death of all sprung into existence fro"

I processed his words "Oh, God, youup at Cruce with horror Then I whirled on the Dreaht now!"

But he didn’t He continued driving his point ho the death knell for , the Unseelie race will cease to exist, fronificent of his creations He never betrayed you, Cruce He betrayed none of his children He gave up what he held most dear for them" The DEG smiled with faint bitterness "And in the end, she left him anyway"

"You didn’t have to tell hiave ! You could have lied"

"No fun there," the DEG rew heavier the longer his silence stretched Finally he said, bitterly, "You did this on purpose, you twisted fuck You found a way to box ive it to MacKayla, I die I die either way"

"But the Seelie live," the Dreamy-Eyed Guy said "

"Fuck the Seelie, I have always despised theed "Never said it was easy"

Abruptly the DEG was gone and ere back in the bookstore

Everyone was talking at once, de and I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach because I knew Cruce didn’t have an altruistic bone in his body and he despised the Seelie and his entire motivation for his entire existence had been to free his Dark Court

Not kill it

And hiaze whipped to Cruce and I stared at hily while time spun out

I found my answer in the iaze It was beyond hiether that way He was a walking funda