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Then the twos dropped as his release called forth his va hi of pain as blood welled, and then nothing but pleasure

All five of us collapsed to the mossy earth

Kingston withdrew froup every last drop of blood I had spilled The air was slightly huorous activity, we’d all worked up a bit of a sweat Our daled in the air

“See?” Ifull sentences “Sharing is… is…”

“A”

Kai’s voice came from somewhere near my left ear He sounded alh me

I didn’t just have my men They had each other They trusted each other

And ere all better and stronger together

We lounged and dozed for a little while longer in a pile of muscled limbs and bodies I was so sated and co, Xero sat up and glanced around us

“We should getWe took care of the rest of those feral va else comes The air back there smells of death, and the air here smells of sex—and both are like beacons to underworld creatures”

The last thing I wanted was for thisht naked, so we all scraain

As we headed down a path that cut through the wilderness, Xero in the lead, I pressed a hand to my chest, where my heart still beat wildly My body barely felt likeevery low

I had never, ever been fueled up quite like this before

Magic vibrated in every cell of my body I felt like I could see clearly for the first ti creatures popped out of the landscape like they had been outlined in neon, and I knehat each of theet it

With no effort at all, I pushed a thought at a preening harpy as hungry for vermin, a picture of one of the rodents I’d seen often around here trapped between two rocks up the hill She instantly stopped what she was doing and flew up to the rock formation, only to shriek in frustration when the rodent wasn’t there