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When you hunt one kindred, you hunt all kindred Remember that, because the next time you send afor you Ladvarian paused This is what Kaelas does to enemies of kindred
Theran felt a surge of power and realized a moment too late that Ladvarian had forced at least one of Kermilla’s inner barriers open, no doubt to show her exactly what that huge white cat could do
She whimpered and her eyes widened Then she bent over and vomited
The dog, da splashed as Kerain
Ladvarian looked at him You are not a friend
Beads of sweat popped out on his forehead He’d stood on killing fields He’d seen slaughter But he was certain he had never seen anything that could equal what that white cat would do to a man
And he was grateful he’d been spared seeing whatever memory had been forced upon Kermilla
Ladvarian turned and trotted through the closed parlor door Jaal followed hi white death stared at hier—and disappeared
Theran froze Was Kaelas gone? Or was the cat standing there, sight shielded, waiting for him to move, to become prey?
No sound Not even breathing Nothing he could detectNothing
Then the door began to open Julien peeked into the room “Prince Grayhaven?”
“How a to stopseeing that?”
Theran didn’t move
Julien pushed the door open and stepped into the room, a distasteful look on his face when he spotted the asped and leaped away fro just brushed past me”
It’s goneTheran closed his eyesThank the Darkness, it’s gone
“I don’t believe our guests will be back,” he said, and alhed at how calm he sounded “I’ll escort the Lady to her room Can you?”
Julien looked at the carpet and nodded “If I can’t get it cleaned sufficiently, I’ll burn the da”
He put an arm around Kermilla and led her out of the room
On another day, he would have voiced an opinion about a butler deciding whether or not to destroy a carpet he couldn’t afford to replace Tonight he didn’t have enough balls left to argue with anyone
He’d gotten the only warning he would ever get If those three ever had a reason to coain, the only sounds he would hear were his own screams
EBON ASKAVI
Dae away from the rest of the bed When he felt Jaenelle slip under the covers, he pressed his face into the pillow and began chanting silently,Don’t laugh, don’t laugh, don’t laugh
If he started laughing again, she would kick his ass out of bed
But, da wife looked like a brightly colored, demented sheep Not that he would saythat He knew better Lucivar didn’t, but he knew better
Lucivar was sent ho to Marian why Lucivarhad to go home before his sister, and Karla, killed him flatter than dead Whatever that meant
Jaenelle poked his back with a finger “I’ll fix it”
Don’t laugh, don’t laugh, don’t laugh“I know you will”
“To, and we’ll fix it”
“Uh-huh” He tried to resist and couldn’t Daet him into trouble But he rolled onto his back so he could look at her—and had to clench his teeth until he gainedso”