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Copying him, Jason found that it wasn’t hard at all if he did what his father had taught hiht is as th”

Now Jason le when he realized his father’s greater size gave hieand it worked! Until he felt like he was being carried on the winds He couldn’t wait to show his mother, and when he saw the pale purple of her tunic in the distance as she flew up to join the blue black in the sunlight His father said Jason was ht scout, like he had been in his youth, before he decided to pursue his passion for music and the instruments that created it

Jason wondered when he’d be allowed to fly alone during the night He thought he et lonely after a while Cold and lonely

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Standing on the railingless balcony outside his Tower office, Raphael considered the report he’d just had from Naasir The vampire was currently stationed in the formerly lost city of Aion of Japan, a city controlled by Raphael’s el so old, she was a true Ancient

The reawakening of Aathered speed, he said to the wo the light fro pattern a short distance from the Tower

We expected as much Elena dipped left Gimme a second Ransootcha!

His vision acute as a raptor’s, he watched as she spoke into a cell phone, caught the wave of her exultation when the hunter on the ground elic consorts were a rare breed Other than Elena, only Elijah’s Hannah could truly carry that title Even before Eris’s death and though it was polite to refer to him as such, the position occupied by Neha’s husband had been nothing akin to that of either of the women That wasn’t to say Hannah and Elena were cut from the same cloth No, they were as distant in their temperaments and views on the world as fire and ice

Of the two, it was Raphael’s consort as considered a peculiar creature indeed

“Why does she continue to work for the Guild?” Favashi had asked the last tienuine puzzlement in her tone “Does she not understand the honor of her position?”

Favashi believes you should give up your penchant for chasing vampires and sit by my side as a proper consort

No offense to Favashi—who seeh in comparison to Lijuan the zombie maker—but she knows jack about hoork

Raphael’s lips curved “Yes” He caught his consort around the waist as she ca “You would surely have ‘brained’ yourself, as you put it, at that velocity”