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"Blisters?" the barghest asked

I nodded,hands were aroundpowers sweep intoht before, despite what had been a rough half hour full ofwith so up for a glass of water, or needing to pee Each fantasy ended the sa back to bed only to trip and fall onto Anyan’s penis Luckily, my overtaxed sex drive was co, so sleep eventually crept up on me like an over-the-hill ninja When I really drea in a sunlit meadohile bees buzzed around us and flowers blooood things to coh Anyan had immediately scooted , ordered I get dressed, bring the labrys, and follow hiht be interested in a first date of naughty ax-play, but instead he just wanted to start my lessons

Lessons I very obviously needed For the only other tiht with the ax, I’d let the creature take over ht with the now deceased Phaedra, I had been a--only it wasn’t, of course, really htowards the place in my mind where I knew I could contact ot was the mental version of sleepy static, with an occasional flash of a drea to sleep, and, in fact, had wanted il that could free it because it wanted to be able to sleep deeply, in peace But I hadn’t thought it meant it would fall off into soe of its power: its own cha or hoas supposed to do it

Awesoood teacher, and kne to ax-fight The part of ht about the fact that Anyan was good at everything, and that he also looked hot while he was being good at things For exa that ax around as he de had left htened about what to do with the labrys, but it had left htly breathless And pretty sure I knehat to do with the barghest, if not the ax

Sop hi Grizzie’s favorite phrase

"Jane?" Anyan’s voice interrupted my reverie, and I looked up at his face I realized I’d been staring at his hands on

"Hmm?" I asked, dreamily

"I said that you’re all healed," he hter at my reaction to hiht ainst the knuckles ofI want to see hoorks," he continued, as he dropped my hand and moved away a step "How much power you have, as well as control"

So I dutifully raised the ax so that its double-head was about level with my eyes Then I closed my eyes, and reached out to it…

The poas ih e that had lit up the labrys I felt its force lick up and downand both nant with a life force that was both part of h, Jane Can you shut it off?"

I frowned again in concentration, my eyes still shut, as I pulledwithin ht in front of ed into darkness I blinked ht and focus on Anyan

The barghest wasmy expression, frown for frown

"How do you do it?" he asked "How does it come to you?"

I lowered the ax slowly, then let its double-head rest against the floor again I thought hard, trying to figure out how to articulate what it felt like to access the pohich the creature had gifted me

"It’s like there’s a door in my mind that I can open or shut Behind the door is the power"

"It’s as simple as that?" Anyan asked