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Tane pointed his stolen sword toward the fey in unspoken warning

"The truth Sylvermyst"

Ariyal deliberately paused, as if to ensure Tane understood he was answering because he wanted to and not because he was intimidated

"It’s a prophecy," he at last admitted

"Of course it is," Tane muttered

Laylah pressed a hand to her throat "What does it say?"

The Sylvermyst closed his eyes as he quoted the prophecy he’d obviously memorized:

"Flesh of flesh, blood of blood, bound in darkness The alpha and oh the mist reunited Pathways that have been hidden will be found and the veil parted to the faithful The Gemini will rise and chaos shall rule for all eternity"

Tane snorted Shit He hated the mumbo-jumbo prophets spouted

"The usual babble," he said in disgust "Why can’t they just say what the hell’s going to happen?"

Ariyal narrowed his gaze "Chaos ruling for all eternity seehtforward"

"Flesh of flesh?" Tane pointed out "It’s gibberish"

The fey nodded toward the ainst the far side of the tunnel

"The Dark Lord created the brats out of his flesh"

Laylah cursed "Stop saying that"

The bronzed gaze swung back to regard Laylah with a bleak gaze

"Not saying it doesn’t make it any less true" "The children are innocent," Laylah insisted "They’re vessels With them the Dark Lord will be able to return"

"No" Laylah shook her head "You don’t know that" "I’aze shifted to Tane "Are you, va she had enough strength left to break his perfect nose

What would it solve? Nothing But it damned ould feel fantastic

Instead she reached down to grab the sword she was too weary to lift and pretended that she wasn’t about to fall flat on her face

"Don’t be looking to rowled at her side "You try to hurthead off"

Ariyal hissed in frustration "You will sacrifice the world for them?"

"The world is already damned if it deht evil with evil"

"Are you bloody kidding rown a second head "No one is that na&iuei stepped forward, sweat coating his forehead despite the brutal chill in the air

"If you want the brats I’ll give them to you" He looked directly at the fey "Once I’ei’s direction, his lol stopping the e"

Licking his lips, Sergei briefly glanced toward the lethal va his attention back to Ariyal

"I’m not without power If you’ll join within his hands and it was only Tane’s hand landing on her shoulder that kept Laylah fro herself at the bastard "Once we’re away from here you can do whatever the hell you ith the babes"

"You wouldn’t," JaelynAriyal with an odd mixture of fury and … confusion As if unable to accept the Sylvermyst could truly harhtened, his gaze refusing to stray toward the fe apocalypse And if this Scooby-Doo gang doesn’t have the stoh choices then I’ll do it for thehtering children," Laylah snapped "All you care about is saving your oorthless hide"

"Are you deaf?" The Sylver babies "They are not children, they’re the spawn of the Dark Lord"

"He’s right," Sergei parroted

Laylah ed to force a sei hissed, stabbing her with a furious glare "They’re creatures of dark nored the thick tension that blanketed the tunnel

She wasn’t stupid She knew that the others suspected her overwhel her to the truth of the babies And in one sense they were right

She refused to consider who or what had created the babies Or what they intended to do with them So far as she was concerned, they had been born the moment she’d taken them from the mist

But it wasn’t just blind hope

To the very depths of her soul she believed the children were innocent

After all, she was a creation of evil