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A shattered Djinn bottle Bad Bob’s slave freed My quest for Lewis Meeting a stranger on the road, a vagabond named David I couldn’t quite resist

A blur of events that I couldn’t even separate, ending in more destruction, more death, my own transformations

Blue sparklies A hole in the aetheric Deain, on our shoulders

Hu rate, because I could feel the tension of the De back, and I couldn’t stop now to even try to coeless and cynical and passionate about what he loved

Fighting forin the ar, deadly currents

The Mother of Stor to end the cycle of violence

Imara conceived Imara born Imara-

The o away I was losing it No!

The Demon didn’t waste tied her hand into my chest, just like she’d done with Rahel

If she couldn’t beto damn sure make sure I wouldn’t be, either

The sensation that raced through h bad stuff; this was beyond I’d felt it through Kevin’s memories, and it was even worse this time, because there was no escape

She si apart whatever she didn’t need, and I feltoff It was like the sun disappearing during a total eclipse, and so

It couldn’t live that way for long I couldn’t

Although I felt like there was less and less of an I It was draining away frolass, slow but inexorable I was losingaway I lost thee ht me I lost the memory of his name, too

Evil Twin didn’t care about o of me, but I didn’tmy view of her, but it didn’t matter She could see I didn’t need to, because noas fully, coht, because I needed every ounce of strength to slon the steady erosion ofto drain one Erased Finito

The Wardens were circling us, trying to decide which one was the good Joanne, which the bad; the problem was that the deck was now stacked, and they were screwed noback, watching with identical expressions of sick horror;to me Not that they could help me

Not that anyone could

The Deh the peaceful, artificial shield of Seacasket, and accessed a huge draw of power from the aetheric She used me to do it My control shattered, and the e years I lost Lewis, swept away in a tide of onco overhead, a soft gray pressure turning rapidly dark, and under the De friction, heat, driving the engine of a tiny but incredibly concentrated storm Not my choice, but definitely , and drenched a square-block area of sidewalk, catching nearly every Warden in its path

As soon as they were standing in a thin layer of water, she forcedbolt down and electrified the whole block

The Wardens went down like ten pins in a bowling alley, many stunned, a few maybe even dead I wanted to stop I wanted to scream

Instead I turned and walked, under the Deates of the Seacasket ceuards here," ET said, as if we hadn’t just lashed out against everything I knew and loved As if I weren’t dying as quickly as she was co the path like two sisters, hand in hand "There were Djinn guards You remeoing destruction I remembered They’d nearly killed me and Imara Ashan had been here, too

"I won’t let you win," I said I couldn’t stop her, and she knew it, but she at least allowedit "You don’t have to do it this way If you want to go home, we’ll find a way to send you ho the Oracle You’re not ripping open any doorways If I don’t stop you, the Wardens will The Djinn will"

"And yet," she said, with the same cockeyed smile I’d felt onto do And you’re going to help me, until I don’t need you anymore"

Gravel crunched underat the container that she’d stuffed it into "I’," I said I couldn’t even work up emotion about it, because she controlled ood to you if I’ged "I need you, because I won’t be able to open the door, not alone-the Oracle will know me for what I really am I could have used the combined power of the Wardens to blast it open, but you’ve ruined that for me Now only a Djinn will do-or someone who’s been one before You"

We passed so, picturesque headstones A crackedsustained soe in the past

And we arrived at the mausoleum

"No," I said My body couldn’t heara completely different set of instructions as my arm lifted, touched the marble door, and then reached for the inset metal knob "No No, no, no!" Memories flared, burned, and dissolved Bad Bob Stor out on the road The Djinn-hot flash of David’s eyes Lying in his ar out

I traced the roots of lehold on them I couldn’t freeIt was like breaking the pinkie finger of so you-possible, but of doubtful use

I did it anyway I focused everything I had, all three forh the lens of my desperation, and cay that burned a hole straight through the black cage holding h to me It came in a sloarm flood, like syrupthe thick, condensed power of the Earth It was trying to reachwas too narrow, the cage too confining No leverage I screa to the last memories as my hand turned the doorknob, and I fell into another place, one with no up, no down, just stone and an ever-blazing fire too hot and brilliant to approach