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Eyes: Hazel

Butterfly tattoo: Right hip

Other distinguishing

Preferred weapon: Rifles and other long-range weaponry

Demon culpability: Disaster can be held accountable for everything from traffic accidents to construction site fatalities to plane crashes It is har it coround: Subject is unable to s to collapse, vehicles to explode and other assorted catastrophes to occur Miraculously and despicably, subject seems to escape injury from such incidents, but those around him are less fortunate

Achilles heel: Unknown

Objectives: Recon tea ways to isolate and capture subject and channel the incidents he causes into a strategy that will be advantageous to us

AWAKENING PANDORA

PROLOGUE

AT ONE TIME, HE’D BEEN aHis enemies had trembled in fear, and his lovers had treed for the sweet release only he could give: death or pleasure A slash of his blade or a caress of his hand Life eet, so sweet

But one night, everything changed

A woman came to hiuileless Legend would one day call her Pandora He would one day call her Witch

The first tiin’s robe, and the hem danced around her ankles as if the very air around her could not help but touch her Know her She had hair as dark as a raven’s wing, a face so delicate it al into the abyss

No one understood how she’d entered his fortress, only that she’d deranted her one, certain she was one of a thousand others ished to know the taste of a king He’dand send her on her way Now, seeing her…

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"I co Maddox This one, and any other you ic will be yours to wield Time and space will bow to your every whis will flow frohed in disbelief The strongest of his hed at her words Such things were iic and power belonged to those beyond their reach, the gods and goddesses who rarely ventured here Still, the claiained his full attention

Feht for a place in his bed and at his side In this, the beauteous creature was no different

"What do you ask in return for this gift, sweet?" he asked dryly "Marriage? To becoht to bear"I ask only that you and your arreatest treasure, in his mind, was her body, and he was rinning "My men, however, will have to decide for themselves"

One by one his brothers-in-ar his acceptance They, too, were s widely

The woreat king, to coain?"

He arched a brow "I would be most disappointed if you didn’t"

Slowly she cliown still flowing around her like a phantom, alive, separate frorant breeze wafted to his nostrils, a breeze of ic she’d sworn to bestow upon him? No Surely not

"Your lips," she said

"Take the her to bend, to coently pressed against his She opened for hiue into his le word His new prison His downfall His sole reason for existence, he would learn

"Violence," she said A gust of wind burst from her mouth and into his, down his throat and into his stomach, his bones He was suddenly unable to move, locked in place as the brutal wind invaded every corner of his body, attaching itself Beco part of him His muscles shook and burned His stomach quivered Pain, so ht To kill What was happening to hi a…no No! It was beco entity, another consciousness inside hihts, could feel the darkness of its desires He gritted his teeth so forcefully, blood filled his mouth Grab your sword Attack! But he could not He was still trapped, helpless to the wind-creature as it ravaged hiht, and there was nothing Maddox could do, nothing he could say to stop her Her lips descended upon Baden, a scarred, battle-hardened rity, more honor, than anyone else Maddox had encountered

"Distrust," she whispered, and Baden, too, was frozen in place, shaking and under siege

Over and over, she approached the warriors, kissing the a different word each time "Pain"

"Wrath"

"Death"

"Disease"

"Promiscuity"

After a while, her voice faded fro except darkness

When she left, he didn’t know He only knew that when he awakened, he was stronger than he’d ever been, faster, better The creature, the second consciousness, lay doric, he learned, was indeed his to command Time and space did bow to his every whis did flow from his hands, just as the woman had claimed

He reveled in his new abilities, e about theer content to endure his rule The beast inside all of the an to call upon them

The beasts were her servants, so in turn, they becaered, it was Vrede she commanded to wreak destruction He killed without mercy, forced by the beast inside him to unleash a torrent of wrath upon whoht against it

Challen she called for fucking Torin she called for plague Lucien she called for death