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"And the other tasks on your list?"
"Nearly completed"
"Then you’ll be pleased to know I have a new job for you"
One of Destruction’s ht its way to the forefront of his mind His mother, the dark-haired beauty who’d feasted on his liver, sat upon a throne That throne Hades’s She cringed at his approach, her sharp claws digging into the arht to rise--but she couldn’t He held her in place with a power she couldn’t overcome Shadows, all his beautiful shadoirled around her, hissing at her
"--listening to reatly at her hands, and he’d killed her for it Killed his own mother Mercilessly
There was no line he would not cross when betrayed
Focus! "I’, yes" Now
"I want this artifact in my possession by the end of the day" He clapped his hands and Pippin placed a new stone on his pal every particle The artifact--a necklace--was known as the cœur de la terre Two hundred carats of mystical blue coral Exquisite, or so women claimed, but mostly desired for its supernatural properties With it, a male or female of any race, even human, could live and breathe underwater with the Mers
The current owner: Poseidon’sforest nymph
"Just one ," Hades said with a wave "If you succeed, the water king will lose his favorite concubine, and he’ll send assassins to kill you"
Wonderful "He won’t be the first or the last I’ll handle hilanced at hisneedlessly cruel Baden welcoe"
"Yes, sire"
To Baden, Hades said, "Handle the water king, but don’t kill him If the concubine has to die, she has to die And rereater good Victory The protection of his friendsof Katarina
"I’ll acquire the necklace" The qualification--by the end of the day--allowed hiainst Lucifer first He was already in the underworld, so why not?
"Stop I know that look," Hades said with a frown "What are you planning? Tell me true"