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Sensations

I could feel the jostle of e I could hear a sound like boulders grinding together I kneen’s voice, but I couldn’t make out the words

“His feet are heavy,” I said, speaking slowly “They echo off the walls His voice—his voice is—I can’t hear what he’s saying It’s just noise”

“Focus,” Cassandra instructed

“She’s getting frustrated,” Devra interjected “She won’t be able to remember if she’s frustrated”

“Relax Breathe, Piper, and relax” Cassandra’s voice was like the softest rain and the gentlest sun, the coolest lemonade and the warmest brandy I let her take me under, back to the memory I felt entirely calm, but it wasn’t any more clear the second time

“It’s just dark” I shook ht I did, but it was hard to tell if ruibberish”

“Move on,” Toland said “We can come back to this later”

“What happened next?”

I told her everything Every little detail Hohen I woke up, he’d been going off on a tangent about how girls likefor jocks and bad boys, how I should have accepted his offer to help feed my succubus powers, and if I had he would have takento him How Gavriel had promised him that demon chicks were different, but I clearly wasn’t

“He was sympathetic to Gavriel when he was still human?” Toland’s voice resonated with shock

“That’s what it sounded like He wanted power Gavriel gave it to him”

“What was his mission?”

The question whirled throughto attach to so

“To screw you over,” I said helplessly “Screw the school over Give Gavriel an edge”