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“Enough!” Grey shouted at the top of his lungs “I’ve got enough of a headache trying to reo hunt down the pestilents in the area and get rid of them”

“Clay ordered me to watch you,” he snarled

“And I don’t have the strength to do this all fucking day,” the Soul Weaver argued “We get rid of the pestilents, and there won’t be any more humans under their spell”

“Go! I can protect Grey,” Calder urged His face was flushed from exertion, and his inky black hair was now slick from the water that danced about him

It was on the tip of Lucien’s tongue to de to watch Calder, but he sed those words, balling his hands into fists at his sides Soed painfully at the idea of leaving Calder without proper protection Logic said that the ic didn’t ease the pain and worry

Of course, that illogical pain only rier What the hell did he care if the Water Weaver couldn’t watch his own damn back?

With a growl, Lucien waved one hand up in the air and the ring of fla tent disappeared in an audible whoosh He stoht Square The Savannah Book Festival stretched over the Telfair, Wright, and Chippewa squares If the pestilents needed people to brainwash into doing their dirty work, Wright and Chippeere the most likely places to find them

The farther he moved from the Telfair Acade people thinned out Apparently, the pestilents had largely focused on that square when they’d struck, because that here all the Weavers had gathered

Lucien snagged his phone and saw a quick e from Baer’s mate, Wiley, that the fourson of the pestilents following theht

Unfortunately, with Baer protecting the mates all the way to the house, it ht in the historical district for well over an hour It would take hiers, and co back And the way Baer drove, it would be a surprise if he returned in one piece

If Lucien ever found hishim in the car with Baer behind the wheel The Ani menace

At Wright Square, he encountered a couple of pestilents, and luckily, no hu bodies reached hiainst it While they looked like nors to everyone else, the Weavers could see their otherness They didn’t belong in this world, and so the invaders

To Lucien, the air sort of wavered around thelowed red while others had talon-like nails that sliced and left behind a poison in the skin Clay had told them all of an encounter he’d barely escaped, but not without first suffering four long slashes on his chest that even nohite scars despite Dane’s atte him

Reaching inside his chest where his power burned behind his heart like a living flame, he sent it down his ar balls of flarapefruits at the twoboth pestilents As evil and deadly as they were, Lucien still winced and cringed at their screams He wished he kne to make their deaths quick and painless, but he doubted they had the same worries for him

Lucien slowly closed his fists, extinguishing the flay back to hiround ru, he called on the fire again, holding a ball in one hand, ready to throw it

The tree on his right lashed out with one thick branch It shot over his shoulder, narrowlyhim He juround and rolled straight up to his feet Looking at where he’d been standing a second ago, he found the branch had stabbed through the chest of a pestilent who had been sneaking up on him

With rising nausea in his stomach, he watched as the tree limb jerked fro to get rid of the nasty gore The pestilent flopped to the ground, a forgotten rag doll