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It all ca horror what had happened and as going to happen

"Was er?"

Mychael was puzzled "He was Why?"

"What about Sarad Nukpana?"

Mychael’s blue eyes widened in realization "Before he becaer"

"When Piaras sang the Saghred to sleep, Nukpana told hred hasn’t had such a treat in years Then he said those with the sweetest ic are the most delicious Does that mean what I think itis known as the ‘sweet hred’s will and I hadn’t believed higest buffet in the seven kingdooing after dessert"

Phaelan knocked as he opened my door "You decent, cousin?"

I scowled "And I’ I should know about?"

"The kidnapped students are all spellsingers, the Saghred likes spellsingers as sacrifices, and tonight Sirens is hosting the crea to happen So just cancel the daers"

"The Twelve won’t cancel the recital," I told hiet yourself a neelve," Phaelan told Mychael "Just get lanced back over his shoulder for eavesdroppers and lowered his voice "I know people"

Mychael’s sht take you up on that" He looked down at Phaelan’s rapier and sighed "I really hate to tell you this, but I can only allow Guardians to have swords in Sirens this evening"

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing "Even now?"

"Especially now"

"And especially considering who he is," I shot back

"Raine, I can’t ed, unbuckled his sword belt, and tossed it on uest here, I humbly comply with my host’s wishes"

Mychael just looked at hi’ is such a negative ter of a other than you You wearing a thigh sheath?"

I linked h Mychael’s "Noould be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs" I glanced up at Mychael "Welcoht on the toith the Benares fa Most ti to bother

I was a Benares As far as Taltek Bales in Sirens Yes, my power came from an evil rock locked in the Guardians’ base that power, but no one knew that and I wasn’t going to tell the in their designer robes

But if anyone so ers, all bets were off

Mychael had taken every precaution to protect those kids He’d ordered all of Sirens’s es MirrorMychael’s spells distorted whatever was reflected in theTry putting ondressed in front of an undulating wave Soly All the dressing rooth ers wanted to adot here

Seeing so step out of my reflection was one of the reasons why I owned only onethat popped out through that athered his students and Mychael told theh mirrors, Sirens’s o over well, especially with Countess Sanura Mal’Salin Mychael ignored the goblin girl’s outburst and proceeded to lay down the law for the evening: no going out the stage door into the alley, and if they needed to leave the dressing-roo the recital, they would have to do so in the company of a Guardian escort He didn’t want to scare the kids, justtaken and that he expected nothing less than their full and cohred" and "sacrifice" Like he’d said, until we had irrefutable proof--from a source other thanpublic allegations

I had all the irrefutable proof I needed I had told Piaras everything--and e any takers

When Mychael finished talking, every last one of Ronan’s students still insisted on singing The shoould go on Da theatre I wanted to knoas here and where they were Phaelan was standing next tocool and confident, even without his rapier He noted lance at his side and chuckled