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Boundary witches are connected to death ic can’t or won’t let them actually die, at least not easily I had heard about this in theory, and I knew that Lex, Jesse’s friend in Colorado, had died at least once and come back, but I had no idea how it actually worked I didn’t have any tirabbed ht beside us He didn’t let go until ere outside, where he crouched next to Katia’s body and checked her pockets with deft hands

"Looking for a phone?" I guessed He nodded and rolled her sideways to reach into her back pocket There was the phone--or as left of it The fall from the second-storyhad shattered the little piece of plastic Jesse cursed, dropped the phone, and picked up Katia in his ar her with us after all

While he got her into the backseat I kicked at the blood on the sidewalk, trying to cover up the bargest paw prints An autopsy would reveal that the two dead guys had been ive theet DNA fro-wolf hybrid, and I couldn’t iet any more inforarage door was still open, but it was now eotten away, then And there hadn’t been any vampires at all They had anticipated our next move and set us up

In another fifteen seconds, Jesse was driving us around a corner while the police cars closed in on the condo I turned to look over h Jesse had thankfully closed her eyes The bloodstain on her green blouse see in her ould just see the shoulders and head of a sleeping wo in from the other side of the backseat would only be able to see Shadow The bargest was hulking next to the boundary witch with her hackles up, growling uncertainly at Katia’s body Shadow still had blood on her ht infro

Then she looked at ht assurance froht That wasback to pet the top of her head, where there was no blood "She’s dead, but she’ll get better I know it’s weird, but it’s part of ic, so you don’t need to worry" My voice sounded cal as I petted Shadow’s head That probably wasn’t very reassuring, so I sat back init

Jesse glanced over "Here" He reached down and snapped the belt for me "It’s just adrenaline Now that the scary part is over your body has to burn through it You’ll be fine in a h intense stuff before--this wasn’t even ht--but it had been three years since I’d dealt with anything more stressful than a bloody nose I suddenly felt like I couldn’t breathe "Can I take this thing off now?" I said, tugging at the Velcro straps on the vest Jesse nodded, and I unstrapped the vest and wriggled aardly out of it, checking myself There was a little blood on the vest and on my pants, but I didn’t think it was lad I’d left the pretty, new jacket in the car

"Can you still feel her in your radius?" Jesse asked, tilting his head toward the backseat

Oh I concentrated for a second Witches in general feel like a very soft buzz inI hadn’t seen Lex in years, but I remembered how she’d felt Darker: like black noise instead of white noise Katia had felt the same e’d encountered her at Frederic’s, so I looked for that again

I’d gotten a lot of practice tuning out the bargest’s "interference," but it still took nal" "Yes," I said to Jesse, "but it’s faint"

He nodded "Better than nothing"

"Those guys," I said as hts shifted abruptly "They were hu a vauns?"

"You said the bad guys probably figured out what you are at Molly’s place," he reminded me "If you had to take down a null, ould you use?"

I thought that over for a ris in Los Angeles We didn’t drag in huuns

Then again, I realized, I’d never lived in any other supernatural cooons with Uzis was completely normal everywhere else?

"Even so," I said to Jesse, "ere they?"