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leaning so close he could hear her heartbeat.
You ever hear of the Otherkin or the Daughters of
Aset?
No.
You ever hear of Sutekh?
No. But if we’re playing twenty questions, I have a few.
He’d been on her before she could exhale, pressing
his palm across her mouth, cutting off her questions.
He hadn’t wanted to tell her a damned thing. He’d
wanted her to walk out of that blood-soaked room and
build some sort of life.
Shh.She’d watched him with those tiger eyes.You
have a chance for a life, little girl. Don’t waste it.
“Dagan?”
“Yeah, just thinking…” He scrubbed his hand along
his jaw. “I don’t know much about them. You?”
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“Only that they’re supposed to be guardians of humankind when called upon, and seekers of selfrealization.”
“Supposed to be,” Dagan agreed.
“But you don’t think so.”
“What I know is that Aset and the old man have
never precisely gotten along.”
“A polite way of putting it. They bloody well hate
each other’s guts.”
Couldn’t argue with that.
“That girl in the picture…you think she was a
Daughter of Aset? You think the bloke might have practiced on her before killing Lokan?”
“Maybe.”
Alastor frowned. “You’re answeringmaybeto
