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But I was helpless, Baggers continuing to drain me My body would soon be a husk like Tess’s

The copter landed in the field not twenty feet away, kicking up ash The wind gusts sent the falcon tuaze toward Sol HetoThey stood and moved back, their lips coated with irl cli, jet-black hair curled froht red She wore a green juh and a long blade strapped to her other To takeoff her helmet Her eyes were vivid hazel, her expression livid A tableau flickered over her I saheel spinning in a night sky with a sphinx running on top of it and a winged dragon dancing along the bottom Ancient clay dice rained down

The Fortune Card!

Was Lark seeing this? The falcon had taken to the air, circling overhead

"Que porra é essa?" Fortune snapped at Sol

"Good to see you too, Zara," he grated "And one uese" They had known each other all along--Sol and Zara "Dios mío, that accent!"

"What the fuck?" she said "Why’d you suman freaks?"

Huh? There were only four besides Sol’s pets

He shrugged "I can’t help that they’re attracted to , my stomach churned, and those bites burned like acid But I wanted answers Why had Sol played along with me? He’d knoho I was the instant my tableau had appeared in Olymen

Sol asked her, "Where is Richter?"

"Kicked back, recharging for the big finale," she said "He doesn’t come out for B-team bullshit like her Did you find out where Death’s lair is?"

Sol had usedfinale

How badly I needed to live, to warn Aric and Lark But I’d lost so much blood, and the mutation weakened ?

"The Empress seemed confident his place is somewhere around here," Sol said "Since we’re in the area, we should do a flyover"

Zara shook her head "Can’t I’m on fuel reserves just to pick you up My whirlybird’s stripped down"

Sol rubbed the back of his neck "We need to get airborne" He pointed up at the falcon "That’s one of Fauna’s scouts She allies with the Eain Zara snatched her pistol froet, then fired The falcon plu, but I reenerate

"There No ers like poultry?"

"Bitch," I sneered--or tried to Only a wheeze crossedSol, "Is she contained?"