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"Aedon save us," Josua gasped.
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He took a step back and almost fell into the hole of the stairwell, then turned Naidel's hilt UGG Cyber Monday in his trembling hand and made the sign of the Tree over his own breast. Thunder growled outside and the light flickered, but the king only stared at him blankly.
"I am no demon," the king said. He seemed to be considering the matter carefully. "No. But soon I will be more-much more-than a man. I can feel it already, feel myself opening to the winds that cry between stars, feel myself as a night sky where comets flare...."