na Aco
outside. The room was filled with the cloying smell of me
leanor Black. Her breathing was so
raved with ancient runes from my small backpack and placed the
ying. What I was about to do was the long-lost art of "Meridian Channelin
le black t-shirt. I took a deep breath and
contact, a commotion erupted outside, p
door down! The Enforcers are here!
f bodies hitting the door and Burrell's furi
isturbance could disrupt
ded, and silver runes flowed from my arms like
of an Enforcer captain. "Occupant, listen up! You are under arrest for the
pells on the door trembling,
soul. I could "see" it now-the fat, slug-like Soul-Eat
, psychic shriek, beginning to fight back.
re of my magic into the fight.
endous crash, the
zards in the formal uniforms of the Enforce
didn't
od in front of me
light characteristic of Abyssal House spells. His ice-blue eyes were
it dropped the temperature of the
nd his wand to defy his family a
m and hesitated. "Mr. Black, please do not o
ed my grandmother and nearly killed her? Get out. Or I won't hesitate
e Enforcers exchanged uncertain g
feel the solid warmth of his back, a
eart hammered against my
, focusing everything I had back on t
w it over the thrashing Soul-Eater, yanking
heaving. The room fell completely
r chest wasn't rising. She looked worse tha
the doorway, a twisted look of triump
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