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I marveled at her nerve After all she'd done, she truly expected Mencheres to step in and save her? Knowing full well she'd just try to kill him as soon as he did?

Bones caught her when she atte to wrestle the knife from his handand that's when Mencheres shouldered past Spade

For a split second, Patra froze Her gaze-pleading, desperate-lance showed his face was streaked with colored tears I tensed, wondering if we'd have to ju, when he bowed his head

"Forgive me," he whispered

Bones ra it a sharp twist that stilled her Her eyes were still fixed on Mencheres, an expression of pained disbelief stamped on her face Then, as inevitable as tihten Her skin lost that lustrous honey shine, and when Bones dropped her to the floor, she was already starting to wither

Behind her body, an invisible wind blew The twenty-three wraiths slowly disintegrated into the breeze until there was nothing left of the sigh

"Perhaps now you can rest in peace, ain"

Epilogue

WE BURIEDRANDY A WEEK LATERDON falsified documents to ic car accident One that had necessitated a closed coffin Denise was staying with Bones andRandy to stay with her instead of leaving that room to help us I tried to co I could do but be there for her I couldn't do much, but I could do that

Mencheres buried Patra himself Where, I didn't know Bones didn't, either, and he didn't care She was dead, that was enough for him

It was enough for the ree under other Masters' lines Some struck out on their own, and some even contacted Bones to throw the on their place in her hierarchy, he granted it After all, Patra had been around for a long ti person under her line would have been mass murder on an epic scale

A feere underlings who'd followed her with no choice, so for theave hiht to live without looking over their shoulders Those higher in Patra's rule, however, Bones didn't negotiate with No, he used so wealth to offer bounties on the out of the proverbial ork to hunt them doith the prices they had on their heads

We hadn't seen Mencheres since the night he'd gathered Patra's body and left That had been over two o He kept in touch by phone, but he was holed up soh he told me he couldn't understand what on earth had in with, let alone after everything she'd done I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense so the why of it was futile

So far there had been no repercussions for the forbidden rumbled, but since Patra had pulled two no-nos to our one, there weren'tabout it Or they were afraid of Mencheres, since he was one of the few people as both old enough to know those spells-and strong enough to work them Maybe they were concerned they'd be next I kneas pretty glad to be on Mencheres's good side, after seeing all I had The idea that one day Bones s shouldn't be possible, and it was scary to know they were

But for noasn't going to worry about it I had the h her grief The future would have to worry about itself

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