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"Of course I do"

She stiffened "What’s that supposed to ht you were freakishly brave, unconcerned by as happening around us, but it turns out you’re just blind It’s al" He placed a hand over his heart "I hate to break it to you, sunshine, but your cool points just took a nosedive"

"Tell me!" she insisted The last ti place around them, there’d been a bona fide behemoth in their vicinity

"I’ll do you one better I’ll show you" Suddenly serious, Lazarus bent down, putting them nose-to-nose, and peered into her eyes "I can see spirits and I can share the ability for a short ti my mind to yours You’re welcome"

She tried to look away--he was too intense, too , and every instinct she possessed screamed that if she wasn’t careful, she would coripped her by the chin and held her in place, forcing the connection to remain

Little flames leaped to life in those black, botto Tendrils wafted from him and saturated the air between theht the scent of peat and ash Her hts derailed He became all that she saw, all that she knew

All that she wanted

"What are youdoing Stop," she said, and thought shethe spell She blinked rapidly, and shook her head The fog cleared The intoxicating scent faded

"Look," he said, his tone gris?

They Were Everywhere Alligator bodies, hu the shelves, inching across the floor, and each one was staring at her as if she’d make a delicious all-you-can-eat buffet

"Did you know that nearly two hundred thousand people die a day?" she said, voice strangely devoid of emotion "In our world, I mean Our other world"

"And since there are only the two of us left in this one, we’re definitely next Is that what you’re trying to say?"

She pal to s"

BADEN, THE FORMER keeper of Distrust, stood in the center of a circle of boulders A jacked-up version of Stonehenge Between each of the boulders was a wall of fog, and playing over the different areas of fog were movielike scenes Scenes from the lives of his friends

Caged exterior, didn’t knoasher And Baden couldn’t tell her He was trapped here

Life pretty much sucked because he wasn’t just trapped, he was trapped with Cronus, the former keeper of Greed, and Rhea, the former keeper of Strife, both displaced royalty on the lookout for a huonna find one here And then there was Pandora She’d never been a deirl, but she’d always been a pain