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I needed to push beyond this; I just didn’t kno

"How are we co it rise up through ht

"I think… I think I can create a kind of bridge, but only for a moment" She exhaled noisily "You’d have to kill the demon within a very short amount of ti to banish hi would be very easy"

"Kill, yes" I grihter "Sooner the better"

"You have the capacity for greatness, but you are not there yet, heir-child" It laughed again

"I hate you" I closed my eyes as the cold overcame me Suffocated me

The candles around us diht shone down on us Darius had turned on the warehouse lights

Everyone, including the delare

"There goes the roe rose up within e’s house This ti I had, I pulled at the fire deep in ainst one," Penny said "He’s nearly got the power he needs He’s draining it out of thewith hts of h my mind Of Callie and Dizzy’s blind faith Of No Good Mikey and the gang, welcoave side-eyes to ered on Darius and his soft caresses Darius, who had tried his danored most everyone else

I welco me that I was human That this cold poould not steal the parts of me that could feel, anythe cold Blending But not fusing

For now, it would have to do

"Go, Penny," I barked "Darius, take down the es Callie and Dizzy, ith Penny in any way you can, and protect Darius froan," Callie said

"Go!" I shouted

Chapter Thirty-Four

I felt the strength froh the de the cohesiveness of the pyramid of the spell The circle flickered, one e with a one-way trip to the underworld, and the next, nothing more than some lines and characters drawn on the concrete floor

My power burst forth, grabbing the de it up Darius ran around the circle, easily dodging a battery of spells He broke a spell casing he’d been carrying and threw it at one of thehi at another one of the e met Darius face to face as he came out of his trance He shot off a streae succuth and power