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"I’m curious; can you tap into the natural elements?" I’d always been able to do it, but I’d found that controlling them wasn’t an easy feat As an ice-cold hipped e piece of rubble, I cracked my head hard "I’ll take that as a yes" But the wind hadn’t been able to sendher gift a boost, she hadn’t coped too ith the natural ele the wound on ot to my feet and strode towards Dana…who, I then noticed, eirdly sht it was a trick to distract rass
"Looks like it’s about to becolance overme to keep my peripheral vision on both Dana and Eloise as I swiftly checked as see to join us Well, fk a duck Joy I didn’t move as she approached I’d let them all think that I was scared, let the, and that I was ready to adood odds that I’d come out of this alive
When Joy reachedhard I expected an attack and inwardly braced myself for one, but instead she swerved to face the others and focused her gaze on Eloise Joy’s irises were then glowing amber as pure hatred contorted her expression She pointed at Eloise "I want her" Joy briefly glimpsed at me as she added, "I despise you, but it would be kind of…inconvenient if you died, because Jared would die with you But her…she has to die She made him betray me"
Well, no, that wasn’t quite what had happened Jared had never been her partner, and they had never been exclusive But Joy had never been normal, so she saw the world a little differently "You can have her…as long as you make it painful"
Joy curled her upper lip at Eloise "That I can do" Then she morphed into a man twice her size and advanced on the bitch Huh I hadn’t seen that coed at Dana "Looks like it’s just you and le Rock"
The axe was suddenly back in Dana’s hand and swinging forcefully ates in her flesh Off balance, she stuiving her the chance to conjure it again, I heldout of h-pitched screah to crack s Honestly, I was surprised thatinto the element of water, she did her best to put out the flalanced at Eloise and Joy – oh yeah, Joy was definitely putting her through some serious pain I was pretty sure that I’d just heard Eloise’s spine snap Crap, that had to hurt like fk
As Dana’s scream faded, I looked back to see that her flesh was half-healed and her gaze was dark and sparkling with fury "You burnedburned ? I blinked rapidly, baffled "I thought I’d been pretty clear when I said that I’d ave her a gentle, pitying smile "No, luv You’re not the first person I’ve hurt, and you won’t be the last"
See a mixture of incredulous and wary, she shook her head "You’re crazy"
"A little," I allowed "But mostly it’s just that I have a violent reaction to silly little bitches like you And like I said, no one hurts ain and I slashed her face with it
With a loud cry, she flinched away To her credit, she recovered quickly, conjuring a large boulder to shield her I si it crumble to pieces But apparently she’d been ready for that; her axe was back and she ai the weapon She sla backwards I hit a tree,the breath whoosh out of me
Dana s off the pants of ed, and stained with blood – Fletcher was going to go ballistic – I got to ister in her brain, I conjured a sht her shoulder, and the iain Of course I could have thrown an energy ball deadly enough to kill her as opposed to siy ball didn’t seeh for someone who had hurt Jared Death by Dexter’s venom, however…Yeah, that soundedto join the fun, because he was slithering around her, hissing Eyeing hi any sudden movements
As I caaze to ave it to hi out, she scrubbed madly at her eyes That hen Dexter struck – in a ain, she cried out, flinching away fro Dexter: he bit her again, this ti
"Dexter’s venoan to curl around h a truly ugly experience Stage one is tee two is tee three is teet to escape all that…because a second bite is fatal Yep, it causes an all-consu pain that’s swiftly followed by death But I think you’re already coonised cries told me that, yes, she was Maybe I should have felt bad for her Maybe I should have wanted to end her pain But this person had thrown an energy ball at Jared and laughed at his pain She had been part of the plan to take over The Hollow, and she had enjoyed every second of the pain that she had put h Furthermore, she would happily have killed me if she could have done So there was simply no ounce of mercy in my system
I turned away from her, and that hen I saw that Joy, now back in her own for over a pile of ashes Eloise was dead Fabulous Realising that Joy atchingto that, Dexter – as noined around ed hera duel? I hoped not A part of me felt a little sorry for her and I did kind of appreciate that she hadn’t joined the other two bitches in trying to kill et to Jared