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"I’o pester the fishes" He puffed out his chest "I am on important business"

"What kind of business would aleprechauns?" she ht air "Oh, I know, I know You’re hunting hobbits"

"Very a his claws, Levet resu a very dangerous, very cunning iry stride "There’s no imp around here"

"Is too"

"Is not"

"Is too"

"Is not"

Levet threw his hands in the air "I sone past here besides a raccoon was a cur"

"A cur" Levet halted in shock "You are certain?"

Pleased to have his full attention, Bella ran a te when I see one He was far rimaced "Bleck"

A cur covered in blood?

Had one of them been injured?

And why did they smell like an imp…

Levet smacked his forehead with his clenched claw

"Sacrebleu" Smack, smack "I have been such a fool"

"Well, your brain isn’t very big," Bella sylared at the water sprite "Oneyou into a carp"

"Why do you want a stupid i his threat "They’re nasty, tricky beasts Sprites areyour wings? Suoyle in the world"

"Enough, you make my head hurt," Levet snapped

It wasn’t that he wasn’t tempted Bella was lovely, and he was a healthy argoyle Still, he understood the dangers of playing with the fey

They always ended up beinghis shoulders, Levet concentrated on the fading scent of plums The damned cur may have tricked him, but that didn’t e

"Wait" Breaking into his concentration, Bella swa?"

He muttered a curse at the interruption "I have a cur to capture"

"I can help"

"Bah"

"I knohere the is"

"See things? What could you possibly see? You cannot be in this world unless you’re suh his thick skull She couldn’t be here Not unless she’d already been su more than another bit of bait Just like the scent of imp that had led hi just in time to watch the tall cur step from behind a tree

His hands lifted to conjure a hasty spell, but the words didn’t have time to form before he was struck by a brilliant explosion

The world went black

Chapter 13

Regan shivered, absently rubbing her hands over her bare ar to do with the brisk spring breeze and everything to do with the very large, very annoyed va silently behind her

Not that she was about to apologize