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No way in freaking Hell is another Jodís going to kill an innocent within the dark No Jodís yet Hopefully, we’re here in time I ease back into the shadows as I follow her I don’t want to scare her and I don’t want the Jodís to see me Not yet anyway

Then I see then of Vic and Jake Where the hell are you guys?

No answer

So I handle things alone My way

I look at the wo back Turn back around and run Back to the front gates and into the first open establishroup Do it now

The wo ass up the paved ay

That immediately draws the Jodís out

As soon as the human runs past me, I draw my blade and step out into the path It’s dark as shit in this place, and only a faraway glow from a nearby yard laht I turn to the Jodís and watch four of thee from the shadows

Shit

You in the front Drop to the ground

Nothing Nothing at all happens Except they all begin to hiss like fucking Sleestaks froin to circle around ic, and my quadruple-vampiric mind wizardry just doesn’t work on them

Double shit

That ly heads

Quickly, I shrug out of this suffocating long cloak and kick it out of the way Not so restricted, I canon erated mouths that don’t close all the way And they stink like a rotting hog carcass Yes, unfortunately I knohat that sic could possibly beNot the Jodís

The one in front of es, and I crouch, roll, and ju, I take his head Off It rolls on the paved ay and into the grass, where it turns into white ross liquid stuff the Jodís turns into begins, and I’o?

Scratch that TwoTheir ed claws reach forI can think to do is knock one down and hack at the other one I do just that With one leap I bound off the chest of the one facingmidair at the other’s head and connect The head rolls, and I land in a crouch The one I knocked down is already up again, advancing

I’rasp around round The other two are advancing still, and I slam the tip oflass, the lauishes, and darkness falls upon the whole cehtens around my throat and I choke, and withfast, over and over, I hit it, but still it holds s I can’t see them, only hear them, and they’re overhead and furious So close now I can feel the air stirring against s, and a turbulent wind picks up I’ up, stay low, and peer into the darkness It looks as though a cloud of shadoirls through the ceht air Then, just as swiftly as they arrived, they cease Silence fills Greyfriars The Jodís are no more

Question is, Who killed them?

I told you I would watch after you, Riley No ht not be physically there to help you, but I’ Until

"What happened?" Jake says suddenly, running up the paved ay Victorian is just behind hio?"

Confusion webs o? Where did you two go? I called you both and neither answered"

"Yes, I did," they both answered at once

"You said you had followed soates and onto Niddry Street, into a club," Jake says

"When we couldn’t find you inside, Noah and the lupines went to fight a few Jodís just up the block We went there to help, thinking you were there, too"

I am completely perplexed "That’s not what I said," I tell them "I said to come here"

Both shook their head I nod "Well, then, the Fallen have one up on us" I look at Jake "They’ve figured out how tophysically here They told you to go to a different location"

"What happened?" Jake asks, looking around oo

"I sent the human out," I say, and that sounds funny to my ears, as if I’ht off the Jodís I got two out of four"

Jake looks around "Where’d the other ones go?"