16/03/2026 02:16

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Or maybe I was just tired and didn't want to be standing ankle-deep in mud, staring down at a woman that was probably younger than I was, and now always would be. Of how much it meant to him, that he could turn from Micah's willing, still bleeding body, to my body, and pierce me in a different way, while Micah watched, or helped. None of them worked for the professional companies because they'd either been fired as a liability, or they'd never been hired. Three hundred plus years in the dark will do that to bright blond hair.

You said you wanted to lick the wounds, go ahead. I touched my cheek where Barbara Brown had sliced me, and it still hurt. I couldn't tell who one of them was. I go in alone, like normal, I get to take the equipment I want to take, not that I'm ordered to take.