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Paige’s face cru itself helplessly on the asphalt, unable to ht seee White Streak He swipes at her with his tail

I screaht, she’s had the element of surprise on her side But this time, White Streak knows she’s a threat and is out to kill her

Then so!’

The darkout the sky Between the stingers and iridescent wings, I catch glis

The blood hunt is starting

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I try to slam my fear and anxiety into the vault in

When I look back down fro her teeth into White Streak’s ar

I run toward her, trying to be as small as possible in case there’s a stray bullet

In the center of the bridge, White Streak swats and tosses Paige onto the ground like a rabid dog, then he sto forly furious and thrashing beneath hi her pet be crippled and crawl helplesslyso violent and intense that ittwo locust pets fly into White Streak They’re no match for the monster, and he tosses them aside easily

The rest of the scorpion-tailed locusts fly in nervous, agitated loops above and in front ofinto each other They seeet past the barrier

White Streak lifts his enor ready to strike atunder his foot

I try to dart in between the swooping locusts, but their stingers are everywhere and I can’t get past On the other side of the fight, I see er whips doard my sister

I screaht into e reacts faster than the stinger She twists her body out of the way The stinger jabs into the asphalt, ee

Before White Streak can pull it out, she bites into his tail Blood bursts out around her mouth as if she bit into an artery She rips out a chunk of his tail before he can swat her away

This time, when he hits her, there’s desperation in his motion This tis his neck

White Streak swings and blindly grabs at the traitorous thing He snaps its neck and tosses its dead body onto the street

Another locust hits hi his foot off Paige for a split second It’s long enough for her to scrae