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Dekka stepped through the door

Two people stood there A pretty girl ildly excited eyes, dressed expensively and ay too much jewelry around her wrists and neck, and what looked like the Geico gecko wearing an actual tuxedo Like he thought he was James Bond

The snake-ht recoil

“You are either going to co to have to hurt you”

He seeain, she could not hear

Unfortunately, in the melee in the hall, Arreat beast hurling itself at her She spun but hesitated and was bowled over by Armo

Bowled over by Arht at the reptile in the tuxedo, who he hit so hard that the boy flew half the length of the roolass, and fell to the carpet, stunned

Dekka seized the ht the girl under her chin, snapped her head back, buckled her knees, and dropped her to the floor as limp as a wet towel

Arainst a wall, with his long claws poking hard against the creature’s throat

But then, luck intervened A policeman, bruised, bloodied, his uniform shredded, leveled his service revolver and fired once Dekka did not knohether he was shooting at Armo or at Dillon, but the result was to shatter the floor-to-ceiling

Sudden wind pushed at the, toward a fall that not even Armo could hope to survive

Arht hih for Dillon to scream out of the

“Kill! Everyone, kill!”

Some of the people below heard it And one radio reporter had a hot microphone so that Dillon’s voice went out over the airwaves to thousands of Las Vegas residents in their cars with the radio on

Armo scrambled back, tripped, fell on his back and stabbed his claws into the carpet, teetered on the edge with his body fro out of theThen he rolled over, got to one knee, and from that position punched Dillon so hard in the stoth of bedspread and wrapped it tightly around Dillon’s mouth Then she used his belt and a bathrobe cord to truss hi, hands and feet behind his back, hands then tied to feet