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And now, Mericlou could see that Krako was right As Aldrec's face gazed passively into nothingness, she noticed that the bruise beneath his eye was fading away, transfor from mottled black and blue to flesh tones

"Would you look at that!" Garen murmured aloud as they witnessed the blackened, charred flesh of the bolt caster wound upon his arm recede and shrink, sed up by a healthy skin In the end, though there was blood, and a torn, charred hole in his shirt where the wound had been, it was as if there had never been a wound at all

Aldrec's eyes widened suddenly, and heall present, even his wife, who threw her ar to worry about, Tulyr," Aldrec said, touching the back of her head co He son, and took him by his uninjured hand "Thanks, friend"

"The path is made," Jenius announced froet to the safe house now Skori should go first" He gestured to Skori, who had by now regained consciousness, but was looking far the worse for wear

"Wait," Aldrec said, standing fully, and then e for Krako's self-inflicted wound "I know of a place better than any safe house And it's so them all to your house?" Mericlou said

Aldrec nodded "It's beeneyes for all of my life You should be safe there"

"Hoe get there, then?" Jenius said

Aldrec started towards Mericlou's bedroo "All we'll need is a mirror, and-"

Before he could finish the sentence, Mericlou shrieked, and without warning, threw hiht of protest could beshockwave threw everyone forward, sla them heavily over furniture and into walls

Aldrec, Tescadji, Krako, Jenius, and the entire family lay painfully sprawled either upon the floor, or across the den's furniture at iles Skori, ironically, was the first to stand, and was not injured worse than he already was The drapes had thankfully stopped the now co anyone from afar, but whatever the blast had come from, the hole it made had nearly torn those drapes into shreds Flaed tatters, while the smell of ozone lay heavy in the air