She grunted. “Do I?” she asked rhetorically.

“How do I explain their disappearance to their female breeders, then? I have merely lost their sons in a place that nothing can escape from. An excellent job, indeed,” she growled Looking away from me.

I stood silent and watched the play of emotions across her terrifying face. The men were in my mind. Christof’s quiet voice told me the predominant emotion that played across Nu-reeh’s face was worry.

“They can’t have gone far-” I started to say and stopped as her eyes blazed into mine.

She bent forward until her face was in mine. The hint of glitter on her fangs told me the venom was close to seeping out. Inadvertently, I had enraged her.

“Do you imply I cannot find them in my own land?” she asked.

and lying broken in the field we built to contain them? No one

shook like a leaf standing before her. Nu-reeh was more powerful than anything I’d ever come across. My eyes were Locked on her form and my mouth was dry.

the silence and

how may we serve you?” he asked

rest of the family followed taking on the shape of a regimented

and take care of

slow down until they had pushed me behind Bane and

difficult to speak to, Mistress. We did not wish to subject you to one such as this,”

return to our duty immediately, but first: How

E L A ‘s L I B R A R

for a moment appraising the grouping of men in front of her. They had layered themselves, so I rested behind all of them. She took it

a contained threat and

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