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"Wow," Regin said casually "Theysystein, Ivan called out, waving thein but couldn't rab their gear, including their swords hidden in ski cases
Shake it off Focus
After Ivan opened their doors and they cliin to say soin translated "He says if a storm blows in or if we're not back by a certain time, they'll be forced to leave us"
"How h fuel to keep the rotors creeping for four hours" Regin tapped her chin with her gloved fingers "Four hours or possibly forty e of Russian really does blow," she adin raised her hand and lovingly scrunched Ivan's cheeks She waggled his face back and forth, then pushed hiainst his lips so she could slaht?" Regin said when they were alone "You don't get extra credit for being there first"
Kaderin slid her sword out of the case in the backseat, readying for trouble "No But they could set traps"
"And how are kobolds going to chopper out here in the first place?" Regin asked "I just can't picture the critters at the helipad, you know?"
"They can turn invisible and stow along I unknowingly sailed one all the way to Australia in the last Hie," she said, then added, "Sadly, he had an accident and wasn't quite up for the return trip" When Ivan gave them another formal bow, Kaderin frowned "What type of scientists did you tell theists fro a sudden ht there was a certain irony in saying we had to act swiftly about a glacier"
"Dakotan glaciologists, huh?"
"If those guys want to believe two preternaturally foxy Valkyrie - one of who disco snow boots - are scientists, who aine "Let the science commence"
Another helicopter banked over them
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At sunset, when Sebastian traced to find his Bride and his skin flash-froze, he realized the goddess had duped hi traced from the temple to London, then hailed a cab Just minutes before dawn, Sebastian had arrived at the address Scribe had finally surrendered, then traced inside
In her ho all the curtains, he'd discovered he could, in fact, "listen out of the corner of his ear" to TV while he speed-read through newspapers Yet he'd discovered nothing new about Kaderin fro space If he hadn't smelled her scent on her silk pillow and finally found a collection of weapons, shields, whips, and ht have wondered if Riora and her Scribe had even given hi fruit," Riora had said "She'll stay close by Europe," she'd reassured Sebastian Yet he'd appeared in the wake of an unwieldy vehicle choking out black smoke as it crawled over an icy plain