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His eyes settle on Dervish and he smiles “Don’t worry about how Grubitsch will cope without you He walked into a trap, just as you did He will be dead soon if he isn’t already”
Dervish hisses and starts to respond, but Lord Loss is looking at Sharmila now “There will be iven time to scream before we cleanse the universe of its miserable stain I will track down those you love and execute them personally I will lavish extra attention on the children and babies”
Sharmila is close to tears, but she holds theaze flickers to Kirilli The stage ician braces himself “Go on,” he snarls manfully “I can take any threat you dish out”
“I don’t knoho you are and I have no interest in you,” Lord Loss says dismissively, and Kirilli deflates
“Bec,” the de attime since our paths—”
“Let’s get out of here,” I snap, backing away fro no desire to listen to more of his rhetoric
“Aye,” Beranabus says, retreating beside me He thrusts a hand in Juni’s di
rection, but she darts through thebefore he can strike A crazy, lingering cackle is her only parting shot at us
“Very well,” Lord Loss sighs “Let the slaughter commence”
Cadaver’s head explodes and the delows beneath the stack of corpses, sucking the blood as it puht shoots froh the watery layers of the sea, disappearing a second later into the murky depths below
We should run It’s crazy to linger But we’re held, captivated, curious to see ill happen This is new even to Beranabus, who’s seen virtually everything in his time
For a few seconds—nothing Then a ball of light rises froer than the ball which shot doards, and expands the closer it colob at the centre, al way off, but I’y washes into the ship, saturating the air around us I’ve never felt any ic quite like it
“Enough!” Beranabus shouts “Let’s get out before it tears through the hold and rips us apart”
We surge towards the door, a terrified Kirilli leading the way, Shar up the rear, preparing theht off the Shadow
Just before we get to the door, so moves nearby It’s one of the hu slowly The demons must have mistakenly left her for dead