Can kill anything

“He won’t bother you.”
“You say that, but somehow I doubt you got a mirror box. How you gonna trap him?”
“I won’t. He won’t eat you because I’ll eat him first.”
“Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you must be too young to know. Deva can’t kill asura. Unlike you, we got no bodies to kill.”
“I am from the black places and the Long Ago. I can kill anything that can die, and a few things that cannot.”
Oakland was only a few blocks away. Ryn found the apartment and cut a circular hole in the window with one fingernail. She popped the lock and seeped into the room’s shadows. The urine-and-mold stink saturated a bare mattress. The hum of a refrigerator and computer fan didn’t quite drown out the skitter-clicking deluge of bed bugs in the shadowy parts of the walls. They moved at once, poured from the ceiling like grains of sand, but left a neat ring of clear space around Ryn. They sensed death on her.


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