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- Swearing, she turned off her console and opened the safe that secured their dwindling supply of gold one-kilo bars and cash. Swiping a stack of bills, she slipped through the steel fire door.
- Ghorm sighed and glanced at the open door. “For the six-hundredth time, Tooloo, shut the door. You weren’t birthed in a barn.” Returning to his screens, he muttered, “That I know of.” Tooloo didn’t reply, nor did the door close, so Ghorm spun his chair. “I know you heard me, you unfeeling knob! Get back here and—”
- But he didn’t sense her. Only two asura inhabited the building: he and Mr. Saxby.
- “Something’s the matter,” Ghorm whispered.
- Mr. Saxby glanced from his jar of pulsating eggs, tilting his head to the side as one human ear sharpened to a dog-like point. “I hear something.”
- A drip, drip, drip plinked from the shadows beyond a yawning doorframe.
- “And I smell blood,” Mr. Saxby whispered. “A lot of it.”
- “Impossible.” Ghorm’s eyes searched the darkness. “She’s stuck to the Bradford girl; she’s always with her!”
- Something oblong rolled awkwardly from the doorway, into the light—Tooloo’s head. It emptied Ghorm of feeling, thought.
- Chapter 17, Page 262-263
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