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I chuckle and lift her off slowly Her inner walls are gripping and pulsing against asm It would have been nice to lie with her and enjoy every hot and molten moment

Still without pants, she starts working at the wall, doing so ires and other components she pulls frooes anywhere without a set of tools secreted on her person

“What are you doing?”

Jax looks back over her shoulder atyou out”

“Why?”

“Well, I don't think they’re going to let you live long, even if they don’t intend to kill you right away The politics in this place are toxic I don’t like the way Tusk looks at me Rath is stupid if he thinks Lyric is safe in the palace Tusk doesn’t want a human in the palace So we're out of here”

I marvel at her, and all she seems to be able to achieve I have allowed th of these rock walls, while she viewed the little more than an inconvenience

“How is it that you seem to have more influence over this palace than I ever did?”

She giveslook with her little eye “I had to learn to work the systems You had the misfortune to think you controlled them”

Sassy little thing She’s not wrong, though

“There are still tunnels," she says as she works “They don’t lead outside the city walls, but they lead to the shadier spots of Megaris Places you’ll live happily, if that dive you like to visit is anything to go by”

“There are tunnels froaris? How has the palace not been invaded?”

“Good question I suppose you have to ask yourself why scueon The desire gradient goes one way for this particular set of underground passages Besides They're very secret”