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"I can bind them, but I’ve never tried with so uarantee h" I turned to Christian "I need the rest of you to go for backup Tell the his head at ether in battle It was an old habit

"You’ll be back in five minutes Trustus, obeyed Christian followed thelares back athell for this later, I knew

Gretchen began her ritual at the door of the deceptively s It was cinder block There was no fuel to burn inside Unless, of course, you counted the bodies

I worked about five feet away, hand on the gray stone wall I was no fire sorcerer I didn’t need to call the fire down from above or below The fire was inside of me I merely had to unleash it It was even somewhat of a relief to unleash some of the furious inferno that resided inside of me I pushed it out with less effort than I expected It pushed through the walls and to the creatures within almost too easily And once there, it blew out like a silent explosion to engulf the creatures inside, too quickly to track It felt good to release the fire I kept so tightly reigned most of the time I didn’t hold back a bit of it, because for once I didn’t have to I felt the fire leaveone flesh-eater after another as it engulfed the hive

The sounds that escaped frouished screa, burning Burning the by one arthe’s flat roof suddenly burst into the air It seeht rain of ash that peppered the battleground was all that rean to e short work of cliainst my will, I had beco body My poas shifting s of flame unfurl from my shoulders I halted the shift, but see suspended in that in-between for Necros froze at the sight of an to scatter back into the building in terror "Burn," I tried to tell them, but my in-between mouth would not form human words I breathed fire down on them in a tidal wave, and they burned

Withinhole in the ground I drifted gently down to the earth, kneeling slowly to touch the ground That touch was all I needed to ground myself I shifted slowly back to hued and tattered Well, that was new, and I wasn’t even winded There was definitely so with my powers I had never lost control like that before

It was a hters that stood frozen aroundshow I’d just given the only a few feet away, Dragonsbane unsheathed into a double blade in his tre his head back and forth as dawning terror lit his face

"Jillian" Christian’s voice sounded panicked "Tell er blade than I’d ever seen in his hands Every fighter watching backed far away fro," I told hi for so very ood at it I didn’t just kno to lie, I knew the perfect tiht conviction I was still hopeful I could talk my way out of this one Apparently I had an unexpected optimistic streak Who’d of thunk it?

"How coed, Christian You’re still a brother to et it?" He was shouting now "It doesn’t er than my will How could you? How could you be this abomination for all this time and I not see it?" Tears ran down his face, but he raised Dragonsbane to ly

I shook my head at him He was my brother He was one of a set close to over the course of est instinct had always been one of survival, but I didn’t think I could bring ht the brother that ht you I love you, Christian Nature won’t dictate my actions It doesn’t have to dictate yours"

"My line was created to destroy yours, when your kind descended into one ree that one mad Most of them have, in fact Those ones do need to be put down But not ed"

His eyes ild "I was always taught that enchantest power over the slayers My father told e your kind in conversation ‘They will try to deceive you, Son, into thinking they are benign creatures In this way, they can take your soul before they take your head’ But I couldn’t have dreained…"