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"Are you one of the Ancients?" Liz asked, her tone fearless

"I am"

"Do you have a name?" Amber asked in a small voice

The vision wafted her way Her iridescent hand reached out and stroked Ahed and leaned into her touch "I ahters of Calderon You may call me Elise"

"Why don’t you take her out?"

Myra sucked in a deep breath, cautious of Lizzy’s tone

Elise turned toward Lizzy "AhhElizabeth Our law is ancient, beyond what you can iainst itby the same rules, what does it matter?"

Elise smiled "If we could aide you "

Tara found her voice "Tell us how to bring her down Can she be killed?"

"In your time there are rumors of how immortals are defeated"

"They’re staked or beheaded," Simon said from the sidelines "At least the vaet close to her How can they and survive?" Lora, who Myra knew had never questioned the Ancients before, did so now

The daughter of Calderon didn’t seem in a hurry to answer She waited

Tara’s voice lifted "What about fire?"

Elise hovered about the circlethe eyes of everyone there "Toin

Do not be fooled by what you see" Elise moved out of the circle and over to Simon "Do not fear what you do not understand You are chosen" She turned back to the women

"Will we survive? All of us?" It was the question desperately sought, but all were afraid to ask

Except for Lizzy who Myra thought would question God himself

"It isn’t for , it is left to you for our survival Use your gifts, all of theift is not what you are born with, but what you give"

The wo iht of over a foot before the iether Lizzy’s question went unanswered

"What now?" Myra asked when no one spoke

Tara placed her hand, palhed joyously behind hiht Her soft little body pressed up against his reminded him of her presence He had slept with the devil, and if there was any piece of his soul intact before the act, it was gone now He had chanted her spells, drank the blood of the dead, and experienced what Grainna called the gut wrenching change

He felt the war cold, only heated by the memory of Grainna pressed next to hi the horse, her core pressed up against hi Grainna the woht to deceive her He no longer kept her out of his e of who Grainna would be once they sacrificed Margaret

Michael slowed his horse

"Are we al the darkness for soht