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“And that, yeah” He touched his chest while shaking his head

“Do you not usually feel your animal?”

He slapped his hand tocloser “Damn it, I knew you didn’t knowat all We’re all still suppressed Everyone but the master He can occasionally pull our animals to the surface with his power, but it’s rare, and in no ti suppressed I’ it soin there is powerful, and she never got to make her debut like other anier to work her way out, right? She’s driving you mental?”

I sed and nodded

He glanced behind hi that no one was there, he continued to whisper “When you flex your power, I can feel her lurking The combined—”

His eyes widened, and fear leaked into the his skin

Alar his shoulders as he backed against the wall My aniet out Hadriel’s face turned red, and he opened and closed his mouth like a fish No breath could force its way out He !

“Breathe,” I said in terror I had about five minutes until his brain would suffer I had to act fast “Breathe!”

I felt his throat, wondering if I could slice a hole and get hi cover from chin to chest?

Probably

Everlass?

My h all the possibilities as my animal bled fire into h ainst my limbs As worry and panic consumed me, I slipped in my hold of her

She filledon a latex suit Power roared through htened, the scents and sounds I was processing so complex I couldn’t make sense of them But she could

It was like I was a passenger inout the way I had before stabbing Nyfain, I could see all that transpired

She picked up Hadriel like he weighed nothing, draped hih the hall and then down a couple sets of steps She stopped instead of continuing on to the door we’d used to enter Inhaling, processing those complex smells, she turned left and put on a burst of speed

A wo toward us stopped in confusion