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Uni the's intention with her was clear, even before the so first"

"The hell you will, Sneethy," Asmodel said

Carrow shuddered She had no way to defend herself, and she was surrounded with no place to run Brazen! Raising her pally, she said, "Then you've left me no choice Surrender now, or - "

Sneethy called her bluff,her shoulders

"Hey!" When he dug into it, rifling through her things, she snapped, "Go Yoda sonored her, distributing her PowerBars with glee Those were scarfed down before he'd even held up her canteen with a "whoop!"

But his excitement faded as he sniffed the air "It coh we haven't crossed into its territory"

So as it?

With darting eyes, the green deo now!"

Aso nowhere without this female" More drool dripped froht in water! Even used"

"You'd risk facing it?" Sneethy said

Apparently so, because Asmodel seized her arm She kicked down on his instep, but it didn't even faze hi deeper into the woods

"Stop struggling!" he ordered "You'll be our concubine - or the beast's dinner And it nears even now"

What in the hell had spooked a gang of deed into a copse of petrified saplings, the fleeter ones darted ahead, the slower ones lagging The young trees had grown so close, it was like wending through a srewlow Asmodel pulled a wooden club froain and whi knife andstalked?

When she heard a gurgling yell behind the with thelanced back, as unnerved as they were

Then, directly on the path ahead, they came across one of the faster de

As the corpse collapsed, Asmodel sneered, "No, the beast plays with us"

Another deone a dozen steps in the other direction when soh the air overhead Blood rained down fro like a Frisbee to land in front of the lay a pair of demons, one body toppled over the other And their heads looked to have been severed - not with a sword but with claws

"A single blow took doo" Asmodel sed loudly as he jerked her around in a circle, scanning for an escape

So had beheaded a pair of i of another? "No, there's got to bein all directions, screams like a chorus

"One," Ash the trees, the cracking of bones and the un too hard to run, stu twice in rapid succession

As through the saplings