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"You have to know" He coughed into his fist, which ca Tell "

"The eone It’s over" She looked up at him, at the death bloas prepared to deliver, and su she wanted to see on this earth: Korvel s at her

"You little bastard"

Out of the corner of her eye Sier at Pájaro’s hand, piercing the palht fair" That was Vingt, somewhere behind her, and Simone saw his blade bury itself in Pájaro’s crotch "Fucking cowardly shit"

As Pájaro dropped to the sand, clapping his hands to his groin and screeching, Cinq appeared beside the pit Bullet holes riddled his shirt, and through theed in the protective vest he wore underneath

"Cinq"

"I told you, little sister We don’t take any chances" He walked over to Pájaro, who lay in a ball, and reached down, grasping the front of his priest’s cassock as he pulled the blade out of his groin

"I have to find the eroaned, and two teeth fell out of his mouth "I am Helada I have earned immortality"

Cinq crouched down over hi, "You don’t even deserve this, youher eyes Sih, severing the feush of blood to soak into the sand As Vingt and Seize began to pull her out of the pit, Pájaro’s voice greeak and then fell silent

And then it was over, and she was free

"Just like a girl to lie around on the beach while the t said as he supported her with one of his tattooed ar a lot"

The big German joined the is back at the house, but we should take her to hospital and have X-rays taken"

"That won’t be necessary," a deep, beloved voice said as a tall man walked toward them "She has a hard head, or so I’ve been told"

"Who the fuck are you?" Vingt demanded

"Korvel" Simone stu on to hiain" Her knees buckled "I’ her up into his arms "But perhaps you should tell your brothers who I a conclusions"

Simone looked at Cinq "This is Korvel He’s the man I love I haven’t told him that yet, but now he knows Oh, and he calls t asked

The darkness crowding in on her was not like any she had ever known, and suddenly Si to her

"He knows" Her eyelids wanted to close, but she refused to stop looking at hiht," Korvel proe of the sand, Korvel regarded the oldest of the men, the one Simone had called Cinq "My friends and I will take her back to the house There arein from the west Can you deal with them?"

He nodded "Neuf will meet you there He’s a physician" He picked up the cross "What should we do with this thing?"

"I don’t care," Korvel said "Whatever you like Toss it in the ocean"

"No," Nicola said, and walked down to the edge of the pit "Bury it again Bury it deep"

Cinq nodded, and turned to speak to hisin and out of consciousness, up to the car, and held her as Nicola drove back to the house

"Did either of you recognize the Kyn who turned us into spectators?" Nicola asked

Gabriel exchanged a look with Korvel before he said, "It was not Kyn"

She nodded "Told you so, told you so Now that we’ve established that I’ out there that can get into our heads and control us, anyone want to guess what it is?"

"I have seen the high lord enrapture a thousandbut a feords," Korvel said "Evidently this being can do the saht"

"It reeness of his animal side The nonhuman ways in which he behaves"

Nicola nodded "That’s it Mortal or otherwise, that thing is not all human Could it be some kind of severely fucked-up version of Richard?"