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Naasir pressed his nose against the glass of the greenhouse before following her inside She settled the carnivorous plant away froe diets, and turned to find the va in the aisle with a worried frown on his face “Are you sure you’ll have enough insects?”
“Yes I’ll take care of it, I prohtly different diet “I like plants” And plants liked her backed to baby an incredibly delicate fern back to life after it collapsed into li the battle
Then again, the plant’s recovery had probably been sheer luck
It sat healthy and happy and green to the right, next to a cheerful pansy that had attracted Naasir The vaers to the soft purple petals of the flower, stroking as if he liked the velvety texture
“Here,” she said, showing hi off a flower, she gave it to him
He bit carefully, chewed “I don’t understand why people eat plants,” was his succinct response, but he finished off the flower as they headed back “We will spar?”
“I’ve been looking forward to it” Fast and unorthodox, he’d be an excellent opponent froround rules”
He scowled “You said cheating was okay”
“It is—for el You’re a centuries-old vae, but she had the feeling it had to be around the six- or seven-hundredas you” Raphael had told her she had to be blunt with Naasir
He is highly intelligent, but he becomes frustrated with too much subtlety That doesn’t ets annoyed with people who force such subtleties on hiht, Naasir looked at her with the silver eyes that held such wildness her senses kept telling her he was nothing known, nothing understood “I could break your neck without effort,” he said, as if si a fact “The sire would not like that”
“Neither would I” Her dry response“I say we do a couple of practice runs so you can gauge your strength against er than her; it was the only way to get better Their enenificantly weaker than the average adult angel
But, she had to be s up dead because Naasir didn’t realize he wasn’t dealing with a warrior angel his own age “How about tomorrow?”
“I will ask Janvier if he and his hunter need help with their hunt”
Elena felt her body tense again at the horror of what had been done to the Little Italy victiht somehow have left a taint in their city “I really wish the wicked witch would take a dive straight into hell”