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I nodded "I’ll do"

He watched , silent moment "I told you, when he killed Caleb, that I wanted hiot a claim, too"

I nodded I could adue

Our deal done, Gabe looked at Ethan again "And we don’t know anything about the sorcerer?"

"He belongs to Reed," Ethan began, "knows alchemy, and doesn’t like to be seen"

"And apparently has the ability to control a shifter, to ht like a damn marionette"

"Is Kane trustworthy?" Ethan asked

Gabriel ed sound "I wouldn’t have said no before tonight But what kind of judge am I now?" He put his hands on his head, turned around, and looked back at the House "We’ve wrought destruction here tonight" He glanced back at Ethan "But thereIt was alchemy? What he saw?"

"The symbol the sorcerer drew could have been alche we’ve translated so far about controlling shifters"

Ethan glanced atin the parts we’ve been able to translate But we’re still lyphs"

"It may not just be shifters," Gabriel said "He’s not known to have any specific aniainst us We may have been the unlucky ones they’ve tested this on The rollout ht be the sa the about an army," Gabe said "A supernatural one"

"We don’t kno long he’s had this in the works," I said "But he knoe’ve been watching him, and that he’s been connected to the Circle He wants control of the city Supposedly wants to bring order to it More likely, he wants to unify his kingdouns and lanced at Gabe "At the risk ofthe story accurately, I don’t entirely blaets"

"Yeah," Gabe said "For you, for us, for the city" He glanced back at his shifters "I’ to object to their arrest A little prison tiht knock some sense into them"

Ethan nodded "You, of course, still owe us"

"Acknowledged," Gabriel said, teeth gritted

"You can start by arrangingthe House for dawn" Ethan checked his watch "We don’t have hness" Gabe’s tone was flat, and frustrated estured for Fallon "And I can noorry about the shifter I’o has figured out soht," he said, then gestured toward the dae to the House "Reed wants to hurt sups, or make us look bad in the press, he couldn’t have planned this better"

"Who says he didn’t?" I said

Ethan and Gabriel looked atyour people to the bar, but the sorcerer and vah--to take advantage of the situation they found themselves in They play with the shifter, and then they turn the heat onto us That keeps us fro closer"