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An incongruous gold breastplate covered her chest and a crown sat atop her os flanked her, their fangs dripping They seeos were "uick, flesh-eating zoer-like claws and es Carrow feared worse than ghouls were the Wendigos Both were contagious - a single Wendigo scratch could transforhouls were nearly old flakes and pus seeped froauze swished fro like a soaked , La Dorada or the Wendigos who clearly served her
"RIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG!" she shrieked once ?" Lothaire's deep voice sounded "Then coet it, you bitch!"
As La Dorada crept past, Portia's tor"ue dropped froazed into nearby cells in disbelief Every being in the Pravus was losing its tor"ue "What's happening, Lanthe?"
"She empowers evil, manipulates it And those tor"ues limited the evil immortals could do"
Just like Ruby and Carrow, Lanthe retained her collar
Portia already had her glowing palms raised, her face sinister as she controlled some unseen mountain of rock
The floor vibrated beneath theeoning stone mass
Eht, her irises swirling,like flalass with heat, Carrow dove for the floor, covering Ruby with her body
The glass exploded, shards raining over theinable pressure of Portia's rising rock, the steel divider walls began to crulass shattering as supports buckled
More i?" Ruby whier until the roof collapsed? "We uards advanced, tossing canisters of gas into their cell, E the cans back at them
Portia tilted her head at the et stoned" She waved her hand, and a ce at one of them Carrow covered Ruby's eyes just as it connected with the force of a rocket The man's head exploded like a water off! We have business to attend to" She turned to Carrow "First off, witch, you're going to pay for striking , "I'll hurt you worse" Carrow jerked Ruby back behind her
Why was E? She could burn them all to ashes
"Leave the outside, and I' without my mask and claws We search for them now"
Ember shot Carrow a look of proers at Lanthe "Colared over her shoulder "Melanthe, you traitor May you rot in heaven" She gazed down the corridor "With your angel He'll be co for you"
Once they'd disappeared, Lanthe said, "There went any poe ht Thronos will coh"