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“I wasn’t,” Kai interrupted His ebony eyes glinted in the diht, and his features were completely impassive “Vampires heal quick Anyway, all we could see alked in was hi stuff around on the shelves Little statues, I think”

“They lookedhis head “Dragons have an eye for treasure, you know”

“Then you wouldn’t have cared whether they were carved or not,” Kai argued “You wouldn’t remember”

“I think sohtfully He wrinkled his nose “But I don’t think they were ge the them back down”

“Which is the literal definition of ‘’” Kai arched a brow

“Enough” Toland lifted a hand, interrupting any stupid arguet started “What happened when the three of you arrived?”

“We saw that he had Piper tied up, and we attacked him Sneak attack He had cotton in his ears”

“Why would he do that?” Toland asked

“Because I al at the spot where Owen had deposited , but he just kept ranting about hoas a better uys, blah blah blah, so I tried to persuade hiaze “It didn’t work”

“So we fought him off,” Jayce said quietly “We didn’t want to kill him—”

Kai snorted

“I didn’t want to kill him anyway,” the blond man amended “But he didn’t leave us much of a choice”

Toland’s heavy gray brows furrowed “Huh”

With that vague pronouncement, he led us back out into the hallhere Owen’s stony remains lay like a heap of coal bricks Toland nodded at the empath, who touched what had once been a forehead She closed her eyes and hummed tunelessly under her breath for several ed knees creaking beneath her

“It’s been too long,” she said “If I’d gotten to hilean He’s nothing but stone now Merade quickly after death”