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- I shuddered, and struggled to open my eyes again. When I did, Kravos, still holding my throat, blinked his eyes in shock. "No!" he snarled. "You're dead! You're dead!"
- "Susan's giving his real body CPR," someone said, behind him. Kravos whipped his head around to look, just in time to catch a stiff cross to the tip of his chin. He cried out in startled fear, and fell off of me.
- I sucked in another labored breath and sat up. "Hell's bells," I gasped. "It worked."
- Kravos struggled to his feet and backed away, staring, his eyes flying open wide as they looked back and forth between me and my savior.
- My savior was me, too. Or rather, something that looked a very great deal like me. It was my shape and coloring, and had bruises and scratches, mixed with a few burns, all over it. Its hair was a wild mess, its eyes sunken over circles of black in a pale, sickly face.
- My double peered at me and said, "You know. We really look like hell."
- "What's this?" hissed Kravos. "What trick is this?"
- I offered myself a hand up, so I took it. It took me a moment to balance, but I said, "Hell, Kravos. As flexible as the boundaries between here and the spirit world have been, I would have expected you to figure it out by now."
- Kravos looked at the two of us, and bared his teeth. "Your ghost," he hissed.
- "Technically," my ghost said. "Harry actually died for a minute. Don't you remember how ghosts are made? Normally, there wouldn't be enough latent energy to create an impression like me, but with him being a wizard - a real wizard, not a petty fake like you - and with the border to the Nevernever in such a state of flux, it was pretty much inevitable."
- "That was very well said," I told my ghost.
- "Just be glad your theory worked. I wouldn't be very good at this, solo."
- "Well, thank Kravos here. It was him and Bianca and Mavra who stirred things up enough to make this possible." We looked at Kravos. "You aren't getting to sneak attack me while I'm doped unconscious, bub. It isn't going to be like last time. Any questions?"
- Grave Peril Chapter 36, Page 404-405
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