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"You can&039;t leave him alone with the razor," Mencheres said "The demon will knoe&039;ve planned Xaphan will try very hard to kill Blake, so he can escape into an unknown host before Blake reaches the salt flats"

Blake snorted "Before, the demon wouldn&039;t let me kill myself Noants to do the honors? And what are these salt flats I keep hearing about?"

Mencheres opened his mouth, but Elise answered, unable to keep the huskiness fro once their host dies, even an animal that&039;s several miles away

So hen you die, there can&039;t be anything alive nearby for miles"

"Wouldn&039;t it be okay if the demon were to possess an animal?" Blake asked "I e"

"Animal possession is very teet back into a person It&039;s easy to compel an animal to kill itself once people are around Haven&039;t you ever noticed that some animals seem to throw themselves into traffic? The driver of the first car to strike a possessed animal would, by virtue of closest contact, then becohed "It just keeps getting more twisted, doesn&039;t it?" "There&039;s only one type of place where it&039;s safe to force out a de the loaded silence "The salt flats Salt is a natural ele a dee to only a mile in every direction, and there are no hu on the salt flats" Elise wished she knehat Blake was thinking so she couldwhat? Tell his would work out?

They wouldn&039;t There were so few things she could do to help hie made her feel worse than useless Not only had she failed to save him, she&039;d be one of his executioners

"Okay" Blake nodded briskly "That uys kno to stop it I wish I had found you sooner"

"It seems like fate that you found us at all," Mencheres said, staring at Elise "Dee, hatred, jealously - all our lesser e they can out of a person, they move on Elise tells me you were possessed when a woo You understand nohat happened The demon used her up, then it let her kill herself to find a new body It would have eventually done the sa back to Blake "Youbefore the demon controls theainst a demon of Xaphan&039;s caliber - remarkable"

Blake shoved his plate away and held out his hands "Do you see the blood still staining these?" he asked, intensity pouring off each syllable "There is nothing re ahas made me"

Elise wanted to tell Blake that no, he wasn&039;t the killer He was the weapon, and weapons didn&039;t have a choice But even though she believed that, the words eluded her

She stood She uilt, but she could still do so

"Let&039;s clean the blood off you, for a start"