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"Maybe"

Rand gave hi look He stepped back, but he stayed close

Caiover him "For every time you did it to me, asshole"

Maybe it was because he'd been hanging around wolves too ht now He unzipped his pants and, heedless of the wolves an or his servant, he pissed all over the dead vampire's body

He et his pants fastened and done up, and was able to step back a couple paces before his knees buckled Rand caught him around the chest, and Cai found his face back in that sauy still standing? He had a sturdy-assed crutch That's what it was

"Thank God I don't have a shy bladder; else that would have come off far less cool," Cai muttered

"You're assuin with Ihe beat the piss out of you" But there was a gentle note to Rand's voice that eased some of that pressure off Cai's chest

HeCai could see a nice patch of ground he thought ood place to lie down and peacefully die

"No dying There are enough deer trails close to this place that an ATV can get through One's being brought to us from Fane's"

Cai's gaze shifted to Rand's broken leg "You need a lift, too And ic, turned into a destructive force, the way it had tangled around the break like barbed wire It gave hiic, had just given it free rein If he'd crippled Rand

"Stop borrowing trouble I didn't know vampires did that Piss"

Cai's ue, the innocuous question, but he felt a weak s "Sometimes you're like a wife, you know that? One of those sitcom ones"

"Blow me"

"Maybe in a bit" Cai's brow furrowed, grasping at the question "Born ones don't, I think Pee Have to ask that one to be sure" He nodded toward Daegan, conferring with Gideon "Make sure he's in a good mood before you ask hiods Oh, wait; better idea Ask Lady Lyssa instead I'm sure she wouldn't construe a question like that as disrespectful"

Rand snorted Yank nated her Since I won't share how, he'll assume the normal way and chew off your dick

E That may be hoolf father would retaliate, but not a va

Cai didn't want to think about the issues Rand's coher priority ones of survival, until just now Rand's gaze darkened with regret He hadn't intended to treat the subject flippantly, Cai saw, but it was okay It had been a rough day There was room for some social faux pas

Rand lifted his head at a distant howl, followed by another series of yips He aze "She doesn't want to come"

"Yeah, that's what I figured" Cai let his gaze pass over the clearing He thought of the spacious ho arms and Greenwald's devotion, even if muddled by Ennui "It may take a while, but she has what she needs to reclaihth female"

Rand made a noncommittal noise, but cocked his head as further coo to Fane's home yet, either She wants me and you to meet her where she is Stalker took her somewhere pretty Good lad"

Fane had approached Daegan and Gideon, apparently to coan moved toward Cai and Rand, Gideon with him "We'll stay with you until Dovia is delivered back to her parents," the vampire said without preamble "The additional reinforcements will allow you both a chance to recuperate"

"Is a guard necessary?" Rand asked

"Yes," Cai said, at the saan and Gideon did "Goddard's an isolationist, but the mountains are the preferred habitat for plenty of Trads I don't know if there are et careless She'd be valuable to any of them"

Even more valuable now

Rand could see that troubling thought reflected in Cai's face and doubly cursed hihts eighted with exhaustion, laced with too et so wounded, replenish hiet up, as vibrant with health as if it had never happened?

"We have a cat's nine lives, times a billion," Cai reassured hi blood froood"