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Kody sucked her breath in sharply “Do you think you could borrow it?”
Si, then sobered “Oh You were actually serious with the Si a joke… Um, no Akra need it to feed her Dais off if I tried to take it That mean old Stryker would probably help, too He bad that way And no offense, but the Si very nice and very easy Much faster than walking And I know you knohat I mean”
Caleb crossed his arms over his chest “It wouldn’t matter if we had it Nick would still need his powers It’s worthless to us without those”
“How so?” Kody asked “I have the blood of Set in me Shouldn’t it work if I used it?”
“Want to bet our lives on it?”
“Uh, not really, and especially not with our cohed “Fine Let’s try to unlock his powers and see where it gets us”
“Hopefully not the hospital,” Nick et their attention “Whatever you have planned, you ht want to step it up a notch and be quick about it We have bad guys heading in again and they’redouble-time”
Nick moaned out loud “Can’t we catch a break?”
Caleb snorted “Pretty sure one of the to break a knee or any other bone they can reach”
“Ha, ha”
Kody held her hand out to Caleb “Let’s do this”
While Caleb took it, Nick glanced over to thevia webcaht of their i even a little bit Thorn was back with a lot of reinforce, bound in chains, a number of Acheron’s hell-monkeys in their wake
And then he realized what else they were carrying
No … it couldn’t be
“Is that—”
“Our for Nick’s worst fear “Yes, it is”
Horrified by the sight of Savitar and Acheron in Thorn’s custody, Nick barely heard the words Caleb and Kody chanted behind him He was too transfixed by the fact that they were all about to die a painful and grotesque death
Rising up from the others, Thorn flew at the house and threw a fireball that slaainst the fortified front door It was so powerful that it shook the entire structure Mark and Bubba went pale Without a word, Mark hurriedly finished ar himself Bubba continued to sit in his chair as if unable to cope as co for them now
Simi started for the door, but Nick stopped her “It’s me they want Maybe I should just hand myself over and stop this”
The Goth derand scale of stupid, that would be epic And lethal” She patted his shoulder “Trust the Simi, you don’t want to do that It’d ruin your clothes and you look very nice out of your ugly shirts”
He s through hiht he’d been shot He felt his stolanced over to Caleb and Kody And as he did so, he felt that light-headed sensation again His hands turned translucent
The Malachai power resides with your spirit and soul It can never be separated fro Just the voice in his head
Suddenly, that familiar warmth filled his entire body That indescribable je ne sais quoi he had whenever he tapped into his de his head back, he closed his eyes and let it wash over him The ether roared in his ears as he heard a rabbed hiainst theht and pain of everything
“Just breathe, baby Just breathe” He felt Kody’s gentle hand on his cheek as she whispered in his ear “I have you and I’ht it Re”
He tried to do what she suggested and not tense or fight the flow of power inside hi to norered away from Kody and ran to the bathroom He’d barely made it to the toilet before his stoirl in The Exorcist movie proud Over and over, his stonity
To his complete shock, Kody knelt by his side and stroked his back until he was finally finished With a shaking hand, he flushed the toilet
She gave him a small damp towel that he pressed to his lips “Better?”
His breathing ragged, he nodded, then shook his head “You have an iron constitution, you know that?”
Laughing, she brushed the hair back from his forehead “Compared to what you see in battle, vomit’s not so bad”
He heard the pain in her voice that belied her light tone Honestly, he didn’t want to knohat horrors she’d been through that this was preferable to them
And all because of him and what he’d do to her and her fa to think about that, he looked down at his hand that had finally returned to normal He balled it into a fist “Are my powers back?”
“Not sure Care to try them and see?”
Nick cupped his hand and concentrated so that he could ulfed his hand Noas his turn to laugh as he repeated it with his other arm
Oh yeah …
He was back and he was ready to battle
Extinguishing his arms, he rose to his feet and headed for the door with a deadly intent
“Nick?” Kody chided “What are you doing?”
“Going to ruin Thorn’s day”
“Do you think that’s wise?”