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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
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  114. Also by Derek Landy
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“You miss her, don’t you?”

He licked his lips. “Sorry?”

“Tanith. She’s not here any more and that makes you sad. Hey, Billy-Ray, I remember being sad. Sad is not fun. So what are you going to do?”

“As regards …?”

“Me. Us. I think it’s time to be honest with each other, don’t you? You were only on my side because you were tagging along with Tanith, right? She’s the only reason you were here.”

“I guess.”

“So what happens now? Are you going to leave me, too?”

She took another step forward. His hand remained where it was. The dagger remained where it was. He chose his next words with care. “Well, I mean … I figure this is the winning side, and I ain’t never been on the winning side before, so I’ll probably stick around. If you’ll have me.”

“You really mean that?” Darquesse said, clapping her hands in delight.

“Sure,” he said, his heart sinking. “Why not?”

“What do you think, Vincent? What do you think, Samuel? Should we trust him?”

“Not one bit,” said Foe.

“Oh, you are no fun!” Darquesse said, and turned her smile back to Sanguine. “This means so much to me. It truly does. You really want me to destroy the world? You really want me to end your life along with everyone else’s?”

“Uh-huh …”

“Oh, that is good news.”

“Though you might wanna kill me last. Because of the loyalty, and all.”

“Loyalty,” Darquesse said. “Of course.”

She kept that delighted look on her face, but Sanguine wasn’t fooled. “So what’s the plan, boss?”

“The plan? Well … I’ve learned all I can as a physical form. I think my next state of being will be pure thought. Yes, I like that idea. But there are two things delaying me. The first is Erskine Ravel. He took Ghastly from us. I’m still angry about that, so I think, just for my own sense of closure, I need to find Ravel again and punish him. I need to drive him mad with pain, and then destroy him utterly. He doesn’t deserve to live on as energy.”

“And the second thing?”

Darquesse hesitated. “Valkyrie. It kills me to say this, it really does, but without her, I’m not all I could be. I’ll never live up to my true potential until we’re one being again. I’d like to see Mevolent using the magic-sucking thing on me then.”

“Right. OK. So what are you gonna do?”

“End her life,” Darquesse said simply. “Absorb her energy. Once I am whole, I’ll be ready.”

“Ready for what?”

She smiled. “For what happens next.”

62

THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR

Image Missingletcher teleported Valkyrie home. “Can I see?” he asked.