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He looks confused when he sees me.
I can tell he’s wondering where I was, and probably why I’m sort of blood speckled.
“In there,” I tell him, pointing to the … wall. I touch the door, and it appears.
That must be what the active magic is for, though I can’t smell it on this side of the door.
“It smells like magic on the other side of the door,” I go on, wiping the blood off my hand onto the door. I do the same with the other. I’m probably a bit more covered in the stuff than I think. It just looks like little spatters here and there when I look down, but there’s a glob of something on my arm that I have to shake off.
I squint at Scar as he looks me over. “Can I lean on you a sec?”
He holds out his arm, and I wonder what else he needs to know.
Oh, yeah, right. The biggie.
“I killed Orion,” I say, as I lift my foot and pick out a few shards of glass. “Well, I commanded his snake and panther to kill him. You might have seen them leaving the basement? Then I hacked him up with a machete and set him on fire.”
He nods when I mention the animals and his bright eyes widen when I mention hacking Orion up.
I lift my other foot.
Ouch.This one feels way worse than the other.
It takes a half dozen picks to get the glass out, and when I’m done it still feels like there’s some in there. I’ll probably have to get tweezers to get the rest out. Once we get home.
I take a breath as I set my foot down and look up at the staircase. “Shit. I don’t know where Adam is. Orion said he was upstairs …”
Scar taps my shoulder to get my attention just as I’m thinking about trudging up the stairs on my sore, bloody feet. I look at him expectantly.
He signs one word at me, “Safe.”
“You found Adam?”
He nods, and I let out a sob of relief.
“Oh, thank Artemis! Where is he?”
He leads me to the door, where I see Scratch is carrying a small sleeping wolf in his arms.
My heart swells as I move over to his side and watch him with the little kid.
Scratch smiles at me. I smile back, and then Scar lifts me off of my feet.
I could pass out for about a week.
It’s been one hell of a night.
It’s definitely time to go home.
Chapter Fifty-Three
Scratch
Wewalkbacktoget Fox and Snake. It’s on the way to the nursery, so I guess I should take the kid back to Fox’s mom. He wakes up when I’m opening the gate, and shifts back into his human form, sitting up to check where we are.
He shakes his head vehemently.
I stop walking. “You don’t want to go home?”
