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I am Destruction

You are You’re also so much more And Baden should have realized What a fool!

"How many wreaths are out there?" he asked

"The exact nuuess? Not many"

Baden didn’t know if he was blessed or cursed What would happen to Destruction when the bands were removed? The creature was bound to the ht? Would he finally have the chance to live free of any kind of possession, as he dreae, courtesy of the beast I will live!

"What about rew froets"

"You should understand the insidious nature of evil better thana wound "Right now, the injury is raw, open, unable to fight infection It needs to scab to protect itself"

"So?"

"Evil infects, spreads and welcomes other evil," Bjorn said

Baden waited The Sent One said no more "I didn’t hear an answer to my question"

"Just because you didn’t hear it, doesn’t mean we failed to offer it"

Pompous piece of--

A waitress arrived with a tray of ambrosia shots After Baden knocked back three in quick succession, Bjorn waved her away

The Sent Ones had their own troubles, he knew Bjorn had been forced to marry to some kind of shadow queen--like Hades’s shadowsBaden’s shadows?--and she was slowly draining the life from him Xerxes was rumored to be on the hunt for a she-beast deterhout the club, and someone called Taliyah’s name

She had arrived