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"Thank you? For the punishment you meted out to her?"

The Valkyrie’s eyes blazed silver "I taught her"

"Don’t play ga to drink or eat?"

"Tell me where Thaddeus took my mate"

"To a place you will never find," she said "The District of the Gold, Purple, and Green Gardens"

Snickers sounded behind her

--This is a for a kill --Hoill those witchlings feel once I put a lien on their abilities? When all the spells they’ve ever cast boo back upon thehtestured back at Val Hall "Tsk tsk, Rune, you and your hty oaks were strewn about like driftwood, the wraiths still dazed above Upended cars crowded the property

"But," N&iuer bea everyone, she said, "Trifling beings, you are presently beneath rasp your own dooers of it"

Lothaire, the red-eyed valares, he added, "What? That sounds like so I would have said With, of course, a dashto war or not? If we don’t, this exercise is tedious enough to count as repayment, soothsayer"

Nïx absently told him, "Alith the payments, Enemy of Old"

Rune asked the Valkyrie, "You knohat my arroill do?"

She nodded happily "It will pulverize all our bones, and nothing will ever heal us"

Lothaire said, "That sounds unpleasant This is e get for planning a fair fucking fight We deserve nothing less" To his female, he said, "Trace the hell away fro "Tellbolts around N&iuround I’ll deflect it with --or my very body"

--Can she do this?-- Blace asked

Rune said, --Yes--

"And if you kill me," Nïx continued, "your poor mate won’t be a blood drinker anymore, will she?"

Blace stiffened beside Rune --What is she speaking of?--