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Suddenly, I realized as going on The Alfar didn’t want to intervene, and that clearly included Griffin, as nodding his head vehe with his French counterpart’s every word

"You have got to be kiddingto talk out loud

"I’m sorry?" The French Alfar asked, as if I’d farted on his shoe

"You have to be kidding et what she wants and you can’t let her destroy this city All of those people in that square will die The soldiers, and police their job, and they’ll die because they came across an evil that we helped to create"

"We are not responsible for that creature," the Alfar said disdainfully

"That creature is part of where our power co up to face him down, nose-to-nose Well, nose-to-irl?" He asked, his otherwise perfect Gallic nose wrinkling in such a way that I no longer found it so admirable "Who are you to defy me, in my own Territory?"

That’s it, canized as my own I’ the labrys toits ene from it in waves so powerful the air shi me a look like I’d pulled a ferret out of my cooter

I hefted the ax to lay it over my shoulder, as if I were one of Disney’s seven dwarves with his pickaxe

"I’m the champion," I said Then I looked at Blondie and Anyan "You ready?"

When they nodded, I grinned at Nose Then I started running

We’d only made it a few paces before the Alfar threw up a shield to stop us I wish I’d seen their faces when the labrys cut through it like it were paper

I kept running as hard as I could, knowing I was getting closer when a few hu me a wide berth due to the fact I looked like a lamour for that last block, and I turned to see who else ith us

The rebels were there, Jack and Lyht so fierce it burnedfor the ride, and I could see Hiral’s ’s head Gog was carrying the little gwyllion on his shoulders To h he didn’t look at all pleased about it

Finally, we turned the last corner to pop out onto the deep square that surrounded Notre Da the ground Sorievously wounded And depending on how many of those wounds had been inflicted directly by the Red’s claouldn’t be able to heal all of thein my heels, I prayed someone else had an idea

"We need air, we need power, and we need water We’ve got air," Blondie said, pointing at herself, then Magog and Anyan "And we’ve got power," she said, pointing at the ax "We just need water"

I letmy senses I could feel water, froher up There ater under the catherdral, which I’d later learn was the Seine And a stor, close but not yet here A plan brewed up within me, but I’d need both the water under Notre Dame and the storm…

[Call it], rumbled a sleepy voice into capitalize on the brief period the creature was responding

[Call the stor myself to the power of my weapon, I let it reach up and out I felt my arm rise to the sky as my senses traveled the water molecules all around me to where they joined, h above the land

And then I pulled, like an overly co-a-war

As I worked, I talked Well, in my head

Nice of you to show up, I told the creature

[The dreaon… ]