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As she focused on the eneht, his dark body slipping in and out of the tree cover

She spotted Nico farther down, co up behind the eneger would be able to sense the icks, he wouldn’t be able to see them in time

She needed to up their odds of winning

Anger sat low in her belly and everything faded from her mind but the hunt

Skye was cresting the wind, her sleek body riding the air like a kite She dipped her left wing, set her course and flew like a rocket toward the eneer

Her long, sharp claws lay open and as she ski over her feathers, she tapped into the power of the sun and called upon the ancient Aztec gods Quetzalcoatl and Chalchiuhtlicue to give her strength

She slid through the air, a silent, lethal predator, and as she approached the enemy, she let loose a war cry that echoed shrilly in the quiet jungle

The lanced up at the last h flesh and bone They ripped into soft tissue, and Skye tugged with all the strength she could htly as she sailed by, the sharp talons digging in even deeper

She was up and away before the bastard knehat had hit hi in her wake

Shouts rang out and the two rean to shimmer as their charm faded and then died out like a candle in the wind Thethe charm in place, and it had evaporated as soon as he became injured

No doubt he was using all his juice towounds she’d left on his face

She saw Jagger pause, his green eyes following her closely Inside she was sh the air like a golden bullet The thrill of the hunt was exhilarating and she banked to the left, her feathers ruffling as she changed direction and headed back toward the fight

She could hear a sizzling, crackling noise in the air as the y, but it was the accounfire that struck terror into her heart Her eyes quickly scoured the jungle below, and while she could see Nico rushing through the jungle in an effort to get back, she knew he’d be too late

Jagger was alick’s curses rang out, echoing alongside the gunfire, creating a cacophony of noise that was terribly out of place, here in the jungle

With one er was there He’d look after the asshole It was the other, the one with the gun, that concerned her more