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"Can you save hiue and worry

"Saving hiardless of your opinion of me However, if you do not prevail then we'reall dead, even you So go, fight, and leave me to my work Preserve what little is left and seal the breaches There will be tih to settle the score if I failwhere on earth shall I run from you, anyway?"

"There will be no shadow dark enough to hide from me if you fail"

"Failure wasnever h by now Ialways play to win" She lifted her chin and stared at him directly "I told you, Lu, I was in this with you till the very end"

The patient stopped breathing The terful entities stared at each other Her husband's fangs lengthened

"Listen," she hissed

"He's gone," the Beast growled, beginning to circle her

Lilith pointed up at the network of veins clinging to stalactites that were still pulsing "Listen," she hissed again "The shelling by the Light has ceased"

"Just as my heir's breaths have ceased!" A section of cavern wall flew at her and she ducked Undaunted, she leapt up in a rare show of insubordination "Stop it You'll kill him!"

Silence settled between they extinction strike, her husband watched as she went to the ns

"They were linked tohis dark-energy life pulse" She s to chuckle "He's self-aware and finally helping to heal" She glanced up at her husband, as noering over her, trying to get a closer look at their patient "Don't you seehe's flatlined to deceivethem "

With a wave of the Beast's hand, four more bodies were impaled on the stalactites

"Be proud, Luhe has your cunning and endurance for pain Ithe wound Youall the gray-zone shadows Let us not be at odds, but be in collusion toward the salad that he si, rather than ripping the limbs from her body "I will not fail you"

Slowly he reached out and a length of barbed-wire chain filled his hand He closed his fist around it as the chain yanked away in a scorching whir through his palehound heads that were connected to the sa's body

The vicious creature's joere filled with acid-dripping fangs, and it scrabbled against the s to pull toward the breach in the reals and barrel chest, its barking now near deafening It was on the scent of angels Frustrated at being held back by its ave into a e at the assault against the nether region

Lilith studied her husband's renewed co where to strike She watched hiuardian of his pri in his mind That he'd called his favorite pet, Cerberus, to his side, meant that he'd refocused himself for war

"I will not fail you," Lilith repeated

Her husband sione