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"Yes, now," Sherus said, nodding with expectation in his eyes "Now you will fulfill your end of the deal You have exactly one day to return to thisand ready to do our bidding If you fail to arrive with them… well, I’m sure you already knoill happen"

I nodded stiffly "I understand, and I will fulfillinternally at the bombshell I was about to drop "But… I need more than one day"

"What?" Sherus snapped His hard expression er "You told me that you have jinn at your disposal Why would it take more than one day to summon them here?"

"I do have an army at my disposal," I said truthfully "But it’s been some time since I last saw theht not be where I left them I need soure out a way to free them from the clutches of what are supposedly the fiercest clan of jinn of all tiive et it!" Sherus seethed "Three days, or I will return you and your hapless friends right back to where you belong"

"All right Three days"

Sherus glowered at er, then his lips formed a hard line and he nodded curtly "Three days And not an hour longer"

His ar?" I asked, alar to let you leave as you are I need a way of tracking you, do I not? Otherwise you ht find a way to slither out of your pro as he ordered, "Step into me"

I stared at him in confusion, but did as he requested I h his Then I stood still Unlike before when I’d shot through him back in the canal tunnel, I was not expelled this time A war, as though so with me with needles

"Now step out" Sherus’ voice ru oddly… cold as I did I glanced back at hi why he’d asked asps behind aping at h I was an alien

"Wha--?"

My eyes shot doard to er translucent, and ht aura about it, exactly the sa arb as the fae: one sash around my waist, and another draped over one shoulder I couldn’t believe what I was seeing