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"Uh-oh," Penny said Clearly she’d thrown up the netlike spell, trying to ic It was not wise to experi up another layer of ic

"Penny, you’ll onlyover to Dizzy, her hands full of supplies

"I can undo it," Penny replied, h the air

The spells fizzed and shook in an," Callie yelled Penny was da with her es of Callie and Dizzy’s caliber

I created a sphere of fire around the ic, and not a mooal Spikes ofat my sphere from within A few spears broke out, incredibly powerful froy of both casters It punched divots in the ground and shot through the wood of the warehouse

"Bad idea, Penny," I said, out of breath I felt the drain of power "Don’t try to ic It doesn’t work like yours"

She nodded with an ashen face "Okay" She sed hard "Okay"

"Go, Reagan" Callie e had run down the few steps while I was dealing with theup from her stunned male counterpart She’d probably hoped the uard the stairs Or ured her chances were better on her own

Leaving her to Callie, I charged the door, feeling that now fa in my middle The demon was in there, and I was about to drop in and say hi

Darius got there before e out of the doorway and ripped hi the door for me I kicked it open and ran into the warehouse

Hundreds of candles glowed around the floor, illu boxes stacked at the back and around the sides In the es, all in black robes, le around a circle drawn on the floor Beside theross, not huuys really don’t have the hang of sacrifices, you know that?" I said, inching forward slowly I didn’t knohat spells were brewing in that circle One wrong h power to ride the lanced my way, all of them hunched in a troll-like way, completely focused on the circle and as in it A homeless man sat within the circle, bent and crippled in an inhu away anything that had once been human

This demon needed to die, like all the people it had killed while on the surface

I gritted h me

Don’t be hasty You have to approach this delicately or you’ll be screwed

So the warehouse Still, the es didn’t seelea eyes took me in

"You are too late," he rasped as Dizzy and Callie hurried through the door They i in the scene Penny ca back "It is done"

"You’re still here," I said, feeling that aching coldness expand withinthe fire I ic before it was too late "I can still break into that circle and peel you out of there"

Darius stripped off his clothes Penny’s eyes widened in shock, and she jerked her head away A et rid of those e of their stooped,forms They weren’t in control of themselves anymore However the demon had done it in its weakened state, it had assumed full control

"Not…yet Give me a minute to look at that circle" Callie went the other way, squinting at the chalk on the warehouse floor