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Cai blinked He was on his back, head turned to stare at the est pile of electric ash He didn't want to look at that His eyes moved to a body Goddard, dead eyes, stake in his chest, rest of hi But it still wasn't what he wanted to look at He had one i to see before he decided if he needed to puke up soans

Yeah, there he was Rand Pretty h to give Cai prurient i on the ground Fane was over hi

Cai winced, feeling a sy as Todd and Fane splinted Rand's Rand white-knuckled Todd's biceps, another of those harsh cries co from him, but then it was quiet

Didn't matter It still hurt worse than thejust beyond that cloud of limited awareness He should be over there, his ar He wanted Rand to be up and walking, not hurt Only guy he kneho could ith his dick swinging free and make it look sexy, not foolish

"You're in too bad of shape to think about anyone's dick right now, let alone mine"

Cai opened his eyes What the fuck? Apparently, he'd zoned out again and woken up like a defenseless baby Trying to orient himself by the position of the moon above, he realized probably another hour had passed

"Given the day you've had, you can be forgiven for taking a cat nap"

Cai's lips tried to stretch into a smile, but it just hurt too das do?

"No, we eat theood"

Rand had a big stick acting as a crutch under his ar, because he was sitting on a propped-up stuht next to Cai's recu ollen and he was in obvious pain, but he had a tight, feral grin on his face Anyone else would have been screa, but Cai expected the as temporarily anesthetized by adrenaline, like all of them

"I'd have to be dead not to think about your dick," Cai said, recalling the earlier coo, instead of a couple hours Nothing was clear He wasn't even sure if the words ca But he was alive

Todd was there, helping hiot up at the same tiesture that said he wanted Todd to turn Cai over to hiave hio of Cai gradually in case Rand was overesti himself

He wasn't As Rand slid an ar his face briefly against the ering ain "Don't ever do soh to break me, he could have done worse to you"

"He was not strong enough to break you," Rand said

There was a lot of weight to those words, and they nored them

"Yeah, he was He just got distracted by the green fire shooting out of his ass and every other orifice"

He thought of Rand running toward Goddard, stake in clenched fist, that killing light in his eyes, the sheer power of hith was far easier to break than ain Even as he'd still bust his ass later for doing so that stupid, no matter how capably he'd done it

He blinked, clearing another hazy recommendation for unconsciousness out of his eyes "We should find a place to sit for a really long time"

"We will In a "

Cai focused enough to see what Rand was seeing Gideon was striding toward the, he appeared to be cleaning his sword or sending thanks to the decapitation gods Cai figured Gideon was his e

"Don't behe'd heard what Cai had said "For one thing, that was a truly stellar staking Second, it's e servants like to do"

"Stake va" Cai realized his voice was really fucked It was like a frog with sh

Gideon grinned "Help our valanced toward Goddard, the remains of Brutus and all the piles of ash "We were on our way, you know"

"Yeah, but you were taking such a daeneral store to get yourself a Coke and a Moon Pie"

Daegan joined the into the folds of that movie-prop style duster he wore It should have seemed melodramatic, but he seeoing to tell him that

Gideon tossed his vampire master an amused look "Hell, we should have done that These two and the wolf pack had everything in control Those double-decker Moon Pies are awesome"

"If you don't annoy an said