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“Besides, if you perish now, then hoill you see e truly have in store for the earth?”

“Hoill you witness the glory, the true beauty of the co of our masters?”

The Agathas spun around us in a slow circle, eyes and sht of Mammon’s hellfire, like soolden spear and a huge bone spike erupted fro directly for one of the Agathas All thirteen clenched their fingers lazily The spear vanished, and the spike cru away in the wind Mason and Asher cursed We were basically defenseless

“It will be very a to watch you try and stop us But do be reainst a single ainst the full power of the lioness?”

“Oh oing toto talk us to death?”

Silence, for a hed, then another, until all thirteen were cackling, their voices laced with mirth and menace

“We shall kill you last, vah to see the fruit of our holy labors”

“Then tell us,” I shouted “Tell us why you had toon so spree? What was the point?”

I found htened, closing in as they hovered above us, their feet barely touching the licking tongues of Mammon’s flames

“Surely you already know, little one My gods demand blood, a massive circle hich to summon them, to invite them into this world”

I shifted uneasily She confirs Then that meant –

“Thea Morgana didn’t think big enough She attempted to destroy your ho as insignificant as a city? Why only sacrifice those mortals? Why not the entire world?”

“Oh God,” I muttered “No”

Thirteen mouths sneered at me as they opened and spoke at once “Yes”

The witches pointed their hands at the sky, each issuing a beahts Up in the stars, the lights expanded and swirled, curved lines connecting each point until they formed into a complete, blood-red circle