The Demon Hunter
“He’d already put on the white button-down shirt and black pants that were his school uniform, but slipping the tie around his throat would somehow make it official. He thought ahead to the night of school to come, his last year of Eighth Pentath, which was like the end of seventh grade, and could imagine nothing good about it.
Upstairs, the booming, urgent voices of newscasters told him that Phlox had flicked on the television in the kitchen. Oliver tossed on the tie and grabbed his backpack. I...t was empty and feather light, likely for the only time this year. He wanted to get upstairs to see if there’d been a report on the jaguar attack— “Oliver.”
Oliver almost jumped. Sebastian was leaning out of the bathroom, wearing black silk pajamas and slippers. “Can you give me a hand with this?”
A long silver cylinder was attached to his left elbow. Inside this metal tube, Sebastian was regrowing the forearm and hand that he had lost back in June. The loss of his arm was the price for wielding the Stiletto of Alamut, a mystical weapon that he’d used to try to kill Selene.MoreLess
Upstairs, the booming, urgent voices of newscasters told him that Phlox had flicked on the television in the kitchen. Oliver tossed on the tie and grabbed his backpack. I...t was empty and feather light, likely for the only time this year. He wanted to get upstairs to see if there’d been a report on the jaguar attack— “Oliver.”
Oliver almost jumped. Sebastian was leaning out of the bathroom, wearing black silk pajamas and slippers. “Can you give me a hand with this?”
A long silver cylinder was attached to his left elbow. Inside this metal tube, Sebastian was regrowing the forearm and hand that he had lost back in June. The loss of his arm was the price for wielding the Stiletto of Alamut, a mystical weapon that he’d used to try to kill Selene.MoreLess
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