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"I’ll get the casters," Marie said

I snatched her arot a nasty scratch fro This is the defensive part Your ic?" Marie said, stilling

Electricity rolled across ? Do you need help?"

"No," I whispered, keeping a tight grip on Marie’s hand This was about to be the worst thing I’d ever created I could feel it I needed to hold a hand--or in this case, a vicious-looking set of claws--to keep e "This is the vae that up front"

"I see theance at work"

A bright flare of light lit everyone up, and suddenly I could see them too Six, as Marie had said, three in red robes, two in purple, and one in orange They hadThey wanted to see how their first spell did before anization possibly be? Eredients out beforehand, so tiht of what I was, and how lucky I was, hit , replete withblack holes

"What the hell did you create?" E a va a little sick to my stomach

"We shall see" Marie laid a hand onher buddy was a good thing

The spell fleard as fast as Darius could run, drifting over the ground silently It crashed into the ing into their flesh Now attached, it began eating away at its new hosts, a ht sky E the ground and dropping a ical noise cap onto the scene

He turned to me, his eyes intense, before a little s back into the building

"He is proud of you" Marie’s grip tightened on my shoulder One by one, the bodies fell into a heap "And I would be honored to take responsibility for the effects of that spell It was rioal to be her friend

She stiffened, and I felt the co spell I turned to throw my hands up, not sure what I would do, but I went airborne I hit the side of the building and turound The spell haries I didn’t know if you’d react in ti tocreated; they were already s, I’d bet Weaker, but harder to sense until they were on top of otta go"

I called up another shield and ran forward A blast of light hitI shot out, my red jet of electricity enhanced with a few tricks I’d learned recently A screaround Another turned and ran toward the building onball of heat and really, really wished I kne to an had summoned in that church had been way cooler than my efforts, not to mention more effective I needed that kind of firepower Literally

It rolled over him, and his robes burst into fla the frah

Slowed and flickered fro and blasts of light didn’t get us noticed, a burning building would surely do the trick "We gotta go!"

I turned and started running Marie was besideinto the records rooht side of the building Gaping holes announcedboxes from shelves In front of me, three vampires waited, six boxes strapped to each of their backs with thick netting The others were getting loaded up Darius clearly planned to take as much of the record room with him as possible, but he didn’t think he was above hard labor It looked like he’d be carrying out boxes too

"Clearly we’re even in this endeavor," I said, indignant for reasons I couldn’t naet into the coer at Darius--"this is that favor You’re welco you in here"