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"Is that why you’re here?" I asked her "Because all the grays haven’t been wiped out of the city yet? Because the barrier’s still up? Are you likelike sos are progressing?"

When I got nervous, I started talking and asking questions I was surprised I’d been able to hold

"Yeah, Blondie," Kraven spoke up "Just what are you doing here?"

"I have a mission, of course Part of it is to assess how the tea"

"What is your aze over the four of us before she said anything "We know the Hollow is not acting as it normally does"

Just the sound of its nah raveyards ever that reliable?" Bishop’s expression had relaxed and his tone felt alht

Bishop had as snarky a sense of humor as Kraven did, only he usually kept it under wraps as leader However, he seeoing I wondered if it was because he felt comfortable with her hereor if it was just the opposite

"What have you learned about it?" Cassandra pressed, and she shifted her gaze to Roth

He shrugged a shoulder "It opens when it’s supposed to--at the death of a supernatural Sucks in the garbage Then it closes up Other than it spitting the Source of the grays back out to cause this current little citywide infestation, I don’t think it’s changed all that much"

She frowned "So it’s true What has been cast into the Hollo has a chance to return"

I didn’t have to look to see that Bishop had drawn closer to me I felt it

"We think so," he said "If a supernatural finds him or herself in the Hollow, there is the chance for escape But the barrier is here to keep anything that gets loose in the city contained so we can deal with it"

"Keeping us trapped here like rats also," Roth gru any other way is just delaying the inevitable And, for the record, I don’t think that Bishop’s pet gray should be given a break We don’t know that her soul can be restored"

"Excuse ain "Your soul is still in existence?"

"The one who took it ed to contain it," Bishop answered before I could "We ain like a scientist studying a fascinating microbe "This must be why you’re different, Saht?"

"Perhaps," he conceded, but he believed I was different due to ins

Either way, I needed ood" Cassandra nodded and slowly trailed her gaze over Bishop’s body It was leisurely enough that the sour taste returned to my mouth "Despite your personal difficulties, you appear to have everything under control here"