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"Sounds messy That why you stink?"
I chuckled and my shoulders slumped "Yes, ma’am"
"You save everybody?"
"We didn’t save anyone There was nothing in the house except bodies several days old"
"Huh" Kathyayini pursed her lips, herup like a dried plum "There shoulda been a witch circle there"
"There was nothing"
"You sure? No circle painted on the floor?"
My head came up "Crap! There were black arcs painted on the floor in each roo"
"Quarter circle? Like the whole house was the circle? You not very bright if you don’t see that"
"Couldn’t be a witch circle It was broken by the walls of the house"
Kathyayini pursed her lips, the wrinkled skin drawing up like a dried apple "Some circles are symbolic, proof of power used soht pay because I didn’t know enough of the arcane I pushed off the dais and landed on the floor below the podiuet back there Now!"
"No" She waved a hand at ot to sit down and listen We got things to talk about" When I took a step away, she narrowed her eyes atand I sat She pulled a strip of cloth from a pocket of her bib and pointed at , which was odd My skinwalkerof a scratch quickly I wrappedpressure
"What have you learned so far?" she asked, though it was more command than request
"That an old Spaniard, a conquistador, was a vai and then used so the iron froic power"
"Hah You not so stupid as I think"
"At soured out how to use the ah power to keep the rest of the vamps in the US and Europe at bay, so he could practice Naturaleza, free froh for him until he discovered a way tothe vaue to take over the entire US But Leo Pellissier stood in his way Leo and me
"I killed Lucas and his heir took over the amulets and added a full witch circle to the ic I think the purpose of the ic was to make a super vamp able to be truly immortal, withstand the sun, silver, crosses--every weakness that va revenants to see what came back And what has come back so far is monsters"
"Not bad" She pattedago They not all dead Are they?"
She means skinwalkers "Uh, no, ma’am"
"You killed the other one"