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“The demon will not want him to die,” Alan answered “The demon wants to possess him, but once it does, the strain of the hu for possession of the same body will be too much It will tear his body apart It always does: The deive a body up”
“First he’ll be a demon,” Nick said “Then he’ll die Shouldn’t take more than a month”
Jae fro he or Alan could do, no matter how much Alan wants such Alaed to help They had told the on, and that it was bad He didn’t knohat these two expected
It was because he was looking at the carpet that he saw it first
Creeping fro onto the carpet, came pale, almost invisible tendrils of mist
“Mist inside,” Nick reported sharply
Two attacks in one day, and a boy wearing the de a lot of attention
“Out of striking range,” Alan ordered the others “Get onto the chairs Get your feet off the floor”
“Striking range,” Ja onto the sofa even as he spoke, holding fast to the back He was still treenerally strike in this house? Is it attack mist?”
Nick picked up his sword and prowled around the circuainst his palm as the mist spread across the floor You could hardly see it, and then the slow creep caught your eye, the wavering of the air at the edges of the roo with mist
Mae had got up on a chair, but she isting where she stood to get a better view “Mist,” she said “Is it a vampire?”
“No, woman, it’s not a vampire,” Nick said scornfully “It’s another stupid illusion froicians who think we’ll be too distracted by their first attack to notice it”
He scanned the roon ofhis sword ready The thin film of mist made the carpet blur a little before his eyes, everywhere he looked
“Mist is a sic,” Alan explained “It usually resolves into a sh to deal with”
The usual forh, Nick had been forced to try and stab a large spider He hoped it would be soht had been ruined, his house had been invaded, but he could be calm about this All he had to do was kill
The two a a racket Alan, who knew better, stood perfectly still and never distracted Nick by stirring or speaking at all Nick stalked around the peri and for a shape the instant before it happened
He would’ve had it, but he was not expecting so and twisty as a snake There was just the ainst the carpet,faster than Nick did Nick was only a second behind it
He sprang forward and brought the sword down hard
He cut the snake in two bloody halves an instant after it had sunk its fangs into Alan’s leg
For a moment he was not worried at all Then he saw the expression on Alan’s face, and he reet you one as well
Nick had not thought to wonder where Mae had got hers He had not noticed the absence of the telltale bulge under Alan’s shirt
“You’re wearing it,” Nick breathed, turning his eyes to Mae
She put her hand to her throat, silent for once She was s in Nick’s ears There was blood sliding down his sword Alan knelt, quite cal of his jeans Nick saw the mark, sao red lines just above his ankle, saw the doorway of the demons on his brother
This had never happened before
“Nick, calm down,” Alan said, his own voice unacceptably calm “It’s only a first-tier o to the Goblin Market and have it removed”
Nick’s aring it down anywhere, on anyone His whole body felt run by cold rage, as if rage was flowing in his veins and the chill was stinging him into action
“Shut up!” He wheeled on Mae and Jaet hurt It’s your choice”
His teeth ached, he was gritting them so hard, and Mae and Jamie scrambled away from him over the furniture He had to lower the sword then, because the only target left was Alan
Nick drew in a deep breath and threw his sword against the wall It struck plaster with the ring of steel, and he shut his eyes at the sound
“You gave your talis for words He didn’t want to speak, but he had to; he could do nothing else, because what he wanted to do was hit Alan
He paced, desperate and silent as an animal Finally he found words, and threw them at his brother
“I can’t believe you were so stupid Not again!”
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“The demon will not want him to die,” Alan answered “The demon wants to possess him, but once it does, the strain of the hu for possession of the same body will be too much It will tear his body apart It always does: The deive a body up”
“First he’ll be a demon,” Nick said “Then he’ll die Shouldn’t take more than a month”
Jae fro he or Alan could do, no matter how much Alan wants such Alaed to help They had told the on, and that it was bad He didn’t knohat these two expected
It was because he was looking at the carpet that he saw it first
Creeping fro onto the carpet, came pale, almost invisible tendrils of mist
“Mist inside,” Nick reported sharply
Two attacks in one day, and a boy wearing the de a lot of attention
“Out of striking range,” Alan ordered the others “Get onto the chairs Get your feet off the floor”
“Striking range,” Ja onto the sofa even as he spoke, holding fast to the back He was still treenerally strike in this house? Is it attack mist?”
Nick picked up his sword and prowled around the circuainst his palm as the mist spread across the floor You could hardly see it, and then the slow creep caught your eye, the wavering of the air at the edges of the roo with mist
Mae had got up on a chair, but she isting where she stood to get a better view “Mist,” she said “Is it a vampire?”
“No, woman, it’s not a vampire,” Nick said scornfully “It’s another stupid illusion froicians who think we’ll be too distracted by their first attack to notice it”
He scanned the roon ofhis sword ready The thin film of mist made the carpet blur a little before his eyes, everywhere he looked
“Mist is a sic,” Alan explained “It usually resolves into a sh to deal with”
The usual forh, Nick had been forced to try and stab a large spider He hoped it would be soht had been ruined, his house had been invaded, but he could be calm about this All he had to do was kill
The two a a racket Alan, who knew better, stood perfectly still and never distracted Nick by stirring or speaking at all Nick stalked around the peri and for a shape the instant before it happened