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wrist, preventing him from either digging deeper or

withdrawing. “And I’ll get my own damned answers

in my own damned way. Leave go.”

But Gahiji only stared at him and held his place, and

with each second they argued, Roxy’s life slipped

away. Dagan wanted to howl. To rant. To rip the other

soul reaper limb from limb and paint himself with his

blood. But more than any of that, he wanted to save her.

“What do we do?” Alastor asked, his tone calm and

clipped and proper, his accent thicker than usual. His

calm helped pull Dagan back from the edge.

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“We fix her,” Dagan said, frantically sifting through

ideas and discarding each one. If they pulled out

Gahiji’s hand, Roxy would bleed out in seconds, but

how long would she survive with his fist buried in her

chest?

“Dae,” she rasped, the word faint. She shifted her

gaze from Gahiji to Dagan, and he saw hope and determination there, as though she thought she could

survive. As though she expected him to save her. He

felt the weight of her expectations, too heavy. He was

sickened by the knowledge of his impending defeat.

For all his supernatural skill and power, he had no

clue how to fix this. Even Sutekh couldn’t return the

dead to life.

But he could make soul reapers out of them…

The second the thought hit him, he discounted it as

a possibility. To a one, soul reapers were male.

Besides, he couldn’t see the old man welcoming a

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