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We haven’t seen any of the Deion Itsonly the skeletal trees and cannibalistic well Individual deh occasionally—some are picked off by the well—but incursions are rare Beranabus has used it as a bolthole on several occasions

Shar, but we haven’t been able to restore her lower legs Magic works differently in each person Kernel was able to replace his eyes when he lost thes You never know for sure what you can or can’t do with your power until you test it

Beranabus and I have used some of the bones and fleshy leaves fros We’ve attached thehs and she’s spent the last couple of days adjusting, using ic to operate the limbs and keep her balance She reat discomfort, but at least she’s mobile I don’t knoill happen when she returns to the hus we’ve created won’t work in a place without

Dervish looks healthier too I’ve taught hithen and protect it He should be fine as long as he stays here, but if he returns hoe His heart won’t hold up long over there

Dervish wove the own in with scraps of flesh froiven hi, purple-tipped spikes I was startled when I first saw it

“I had spikes like this the last tihtly “I walked away alive then, so ood luck We’ll need all the luck we can ain”

There’s no doubt we’ll have to fight, either the Shadow or its ared Before Meera and Shark tracked the fro to find out more about the mysterious Shadow

We saw the Shadow the night Bill-E was killed A huge, nebulous cloud of a ht, almost as black as the cave when I was sealed up there Immensely powerful even by demonic standards

Lord Loss said the creature would destroy hu on it like a cat slurping milk In my time he slyly helped me close a tunnel, to stop a demon invasion He needs humans the way a fish needs water

But he’s afraid of the Shadow He doesn’t believe mankind can defeat this new threat He sided with the creature, served as if he was an ordinary de, even though thathe cherishes

Lord Loss’s fear of the Shadow fills Beranabus with unease He believes the war between humanity and the Demonata can’t last forever In the distant past, the powerful Old Creatures ruled the Earth and demons couldn’t cross By my time their power had waned That led to the current war between humans and demons Beranabus thinks we e between universes or they’ll wipe us out completely

The Kah-Gash has been Beranabus’s only real hope According to the ancient legends, the weapon can destroy a universe—ours or the Demonata’s He’d love to do that It doesn’t bother hi an entire life forht to the finish The universes are colliding and only the victors will survive

Beranabus has the Kah-Gash now—in the shape of Grubbs, Kernel and me—but he doesn’t trust it The weapon has a will of its own It worked through us when the world was last threatened by a deh but it’s been silent since We don’t knohat its plans or desires are

Beranabus hoped to experiment, unlock the Kah-Gash’s secrets, find out how to direct its great power But so far he hasn’t learnt anything new

Unwilling to unleash the Kah-Gash, Beranabus instead hunted for the shadowyno name for it, he dubbed it the Shadow The more he chased it, the more apt that name became