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Chapter 513
The hand she had used to open the intercept portal. The one that had gotten between Benimaru's fist and Web's chest about forty seconds ago, moved on instinct, the blue portal opening in the space between the strike and the target, the fist going through the portal and arriving somewhere neutral rather than arriving at Web's sternum.She hadn't thought about it.It had just happened.The way certain things happen when they have been decided somewhere below the level of decisions.Web looked at her hand.Then at her face."Thank you.” He said.Quiet. Just between them.Kyx looked at the portal."The bug needed saving." She said."Kyx."She went through the portal.Web stood at the edge for one more second. The corner of his mouth moved, just slightly, just briefly, in a direction that could generously be described as a smile and then he went through.The portal closed.The dark realm chamber was empty except for Wabash, grey and still on the floor, and the cold that had been there be
Chapter 512
And the five of them stood in it, Dero, the twins, Gull, Web, Kyx, with the specific atmosphere of a group that has been assembled by external circumstance rather than personal preference and is beginning to take stock of that fact.……….Benimaru looked at the door the Grand Master had exited through.Then at Dero.Then at Web.Then at Gull.Then he looked at the floor where he had been lying and the specific expression on his face was the expression of someone deciding whether the floor had been worth the elbow.He had not yet decided.The chamber had gone from the Grand Master's presence to something considerably less formal in the space of about thirty seconds.Benimaru was looking at Web.Not the way Dero looked at things, Dero's looking had precision in it, the looking of someone reading a situation. Benimaru's looking was different. It was the looking of something that had picked up an object and was deciding whether the object was interesting."You." He said.Web looked at him
Chapter 511
"Gull.” Web said."Stopping.” Gull said. "Right now. Stopped."He pressed his lips together.Then, after exactly two seconds, very quietly and almost entirely to himself… "Were you kicked in the head as a child? I'm asking genuinely."He was looking at Kyx when he said it.Web closed his eyes briefly.……….Gabimaru turned his head.Not toward Gull and Web,toward the Grand Master. Both of them turned at the same moment, which was the way they did everything, and their voices arrived at the same time the way they always did."Grand Master." Gabimaru said."We await." Benimaru finished."Your instruction.” Gabimaru continued."With eagerness.” Benimaru completed.The Grand Master looked at them both."There are vessels to be collected.” he said. "The remaining ones. The Emperor Dragon vessel among them." He paused. "I want them brought here."Gabimaru dipped his chin. "Understood.""Perfectly understood.” Benimaru said. "We will…"He stopped.The Grand Master turned to him
Chapter 510:The Spine of the Dark Lord
The chamber was quiet in the specific way of places that have just had something enormous happen in them and haven't yet decided what to do with the air that was left.Benimaru and Gabimaru were still on their knees.One knee each, heads slightly bowed, the sickly green light of their resurrected eyes directed at the stone floor in front of them. The smoke from the awakening had thinned,curling upward in slow lazy columns from the cracks where the resurrection had worked through the stone of them, the last physical evidence of what had just happened dispersing into the dark of the chamber's high ceiling.They were still.The specific stillness of things that had been still for a very long time and had only recently been reminded that stillness was a choice rather than a condition.The Grand Master looked at them.Then he said, simply…"Arise."They moved together.Not one and then the other,together, the coordination of it was so complete that it looked like one action performed by t
Chapter 509
The Grand Master looked at the green flame.At Valthorax looking back at him through Wabash's eyes."I know what you saw." He said to the dragon inside the eyes. "I know what you showed him. I know that he knew some version of this was coming." He held the gaze of the ancient eyes inside the young face. "And he came anyway, because that is who he is." He paused. "And you let him, because you understood that this moment was necessary."The green flame in Wabash's hands flickered.Something moved in the green eyes,something that was not quite agreement and was not quite denial."Goodbye, Valthorax." The Grand Master said.His mouth opened.And from it came something that should not have been possible, a red, deep, cellular light, not a flame, something older than flame, the light of a process that had been designed to do one specific thing that nothing was supposed to be designed to do.Wabash felt it.The pulling.Not from outside, from inside, from the deepest inside, from the
Chapter 508
"Though I understand your team had their own difficulties.""We were handling it." Web said."You were handled.” Dero said. "There is a difference.""Dero…""High Official Roderick and a woman I don't recognize put an axe through your back via the portal." Dero said. "I'm not commenting on your competence. I'm commenting on the specific incident of the axe."Web's jaw tightened."At least we didn't lose our target.”Kyx said.Dero turned and looked at her.Fully turned. The full attention of someone who has decided that a statement requires a complete response rather than a partial one."Careful." Dero said. Quiet. The specific quiet of something that doesn't need volume."I'm just…""What you are just doing." Dero said."Is speaking to me in a way that will require me to demonstrate, for what I hope will be the final time, the difference between what I am and what you are." She looked at Kyx steadily. "I have no interest in doing that tonight. So I would encourage you to st
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