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"Toet some sleep Mr Floride here has filled ht activities For your information, the Lord Alpha confirmed ht and will be returning to the capital He is however leaving behind a delegation to investigate further, thanks to the encounter with the terrametus"

"What? He can’t do that!" I burst out

"He can do whatever he wants," chided Julia, gently "They have pressing business back in London to attend to but have decided that the situation here needs to be taken care of too They’re going to ask Mr Floride here to do some more work before they decide what to do next"

I swore violently Howto need to depend on to get throughof which… "Why haven’t I heard of this trieswater before? I feel a hell of a lot better"

"It accelerates healing in huh it often sends weaker ones into a coma before it can really start to work You’ve avoided that part of it, fortunately It does have some rather unpleasant side effects, however"

"Yeah, I felt those," I commented

"I didn’t mean the pain, dear Shifters don’t use it to heal, they use it as a hallucinogenic drug"

"Uh…what?"

"You’ll feel a lot better very quickly but if you start to see things that don’tto be hallucinating It’s why I haven’t ever given it to you before"

"Great," Iers into his fur to prepareat hi Julia For…"

He ruffled ave h"

I smiled at him weakly and Tom took off

When we arrived back at the keep, the sun was reaching higher into the sky and the sunny daylight ht before fade away into a bad ht – or day’s – sleep, however I slid off To to owe a lot of people a lot of favours by the time all this is over," I murmured, half to him and half to myself

He whined softly in return In front of the oak doors, a glea The scratched car from the other day seemed to have disappeared Perhaps it offended his sensibilities to be seen in anything less than perfect Nothing but the best for the Lord of all Alphas, I thought sardonically From within the keep itself, I could hear his raised voice barking out indistinct orders I briefly considered trying to enter through a back door and slipping up to the dorm unnoticed when Lucy wandered outside

She waved enthusiastically "Hey! Can you believe how freaky that thing was last night?"

For a stupidto the wichtlein and wondered how on earth she knew about it, before I realised that she meant the earthquake monster instead

"Yeah," I nodded fervently in response "Freaky"

"You were kind of freaky yourself too," she added "I’ve never seen Lord Corrigan so iant four poster bed, draped with satin covers and plumped up pillows, hovered in the sky I looked down at To in the air next to her, can you?"