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“Maybe She says she’s fine”

“What does the Healer say?”

“Nurian also says Marian is fine, so she’s fine Everyone is supposed to be fine Well, I’e” Lucivar snarled “Next thing she’ll be wanting sex again”

“They do that,” Aaron said sympathetically while Khary nodded “They do”

“Well, then” Saetan began

Bang!

They all straightened up and looked toward the door

“What was that?” Daemon asked

“Sounded like so blew up,” Lucivar replied “What kind of spell were the girls trying to fix?”

They all looked at him

“No,” Saetan said fir this room”

The other four men looked at one another

Daeot soain”

TERREILLE

Having exhausted his patience for card playing, Theran left Ker over a hand of solitaire and noticed the Sceltie standing perfectly still near the parlor door

He“Vae?”

No, not Vae Sas, and a sense of maturity—and power

He saw the Red Jewel at the sa and hurried toward hiht

“Oh,Theran You got me a Sceltie”

She took another step The dog bared his teeth and snarled

Ker!”

So more than the Sceltie snarled, and the sound filled the room

I a at Kermilla This is Prince Jaal

A large brown cat with black stripes suddenly appeared on Ladvarian’s right, dwarfing the Sceltie If the cat had the strength that body irown horse or coithout any trouble

He didn’t want to think about what it could do to a man

Then he noticed the Green Jewel around the cat’s neck and acknowledged the title his mind wanted to denyPrince Jaal A Warlord Prince ore a Jewel equal to his own and had a body he couldn’t th or speed

And this is Prince Kaelas, Ladvarian said

Theran’s bowels turned to water The white cat now standing on Ladvarian’s left washuge Even the striped cat looked small in comparison

Worse, Kaelas wore a Red Jewel

The Sceltie was focused on Kermilla The cats were focused onhi rong now, he had no chance of surviving

You hurt Khollie, Ladvarian told Kermilla

“No, I just—”