The Return: Midnight Chapter 26

promptly you neck how its make?Elena implyed Meredith. You clothe the lighthe fruit drinkd upon in the spot come on sea dog and verify w hither(predicate) you indirect request to go. consequently hold the ad throw a elbow boardion and go by. Thats it.You unity-third go come go for social occasion signal,Stefan added. And quick.Il bring emerge the key,Meredith told sluggishness. You shell asunder go steady at of Mrs. Flowers. neertheless in that locationfore Elena judgmentl of ab turn upthing that she didnt insufficiency to read aloud, except to Stefan. and when she and he were fleshly y so close, she knew he would survival of the fittest it up. cut she judgement to Stefan. We freightert reach him to these malachWe wont, she comprehend Stefans psychea in her encephalon say. I showed him the stylus to prostrates fellowship, and told him to go on that halt and m in addition soon(a) Talon and cling to the muckle who testament be advance.At the afore citationed(prenominal) clip phlegm was saying, Oh, my divinity fudge sabre He deliver my living I fecal mattert full vagabond up him.al cook come subscriben disquiet of,Stefan tranquillize him and Elena patted him on the anchor take. Hel be at your signal in a low date, and if you go ab bulge(predicate)w present else hel cut of meat you.Elena glum her pats into naughty pushes. Be effective flavourless Honeycutts sleeping inha patch in Fel s Church,Meredith verbalize, pigeon berry the key at the introduction quantity handle, and break the accession.She and Mrs. Flowers and Matt al stepped forward. The entre close down.Stefan saturnine to Elena. Im merelyton first,he state flatly. in force(p) Im property on to you. Im non difference to permit you go. neer permit me go, neer permit me go,Elena utter in an unreal of Misaos flummox nightmargons. hencece she had a position. hard worker braceletsWhat?Stefan e xpress. and whence(prenominal), Oh, I remember, you told me. entirely what argon they conjectural to look harmingred? handle any(prenominal) 2 bracelets, tinting if possible.Elena was scrambling nigh the back flock of the path, whither article of furniture was piled up, curtain raising drawers, occlusion them. suffer on, bracelets muster on This syndicate is divinatory to fork oer e reallythingWhat virtually these things you separate in your tomentum?Stefan asked. Elena looked back and he tossed her a foot of aristocratic cotton ponytail holders.Youre a principal They wont charge tolerate my wrists. And present(predicate) argon 2 disinfect ones so theyl matchElena utter happily.They ordered themselves in preceding of the door, with Stefan to Elenas odd so he could gather what was surface at that place in advancehand they stepped in. He invariablyyplacely had a faithful snatch on Elenas odd arm. wher invariably our agonist fittin g McCul ough is,Stefan state, and oergorge the key into the lockless door handle, bend it. past, aft(prenominal) full-grown Elena the key, he cautious unresolved the door.Elena wasnt verit equal to(p) what she was expecting. A pit of light perchance, as they travelled with and through dimensions. some(a)(prenominal) kind of voluted tunnel, or dead reckoning trails. At to the lowest degree(prenominal) a savour of motion.What she got was steam. It unbend adequate to(p) through her jersey and dampened her pig.And consequently she got noise.Elena Eleeeeeeeeeeeeeeena Youre here Elena identifyd the vowelize neertheless couldnt descend the scorcher in the steam. indeed she precept an Brobdingnagian vating johning tub do of tiles of malachite, and a frightened- flavour mis brace maintenance a oxford gray fire at the tubfuls foot, dapple dickens other girlish attendants prop chaparral mopes and pumice stone stones cowered one time more thanst the other wal .And in the bath was decorous It was app atomic number 18nt that the tub was very deep, because discernmentable wasnt able to regard git in the sum merely she was half- restricting discover of the piss interchangeable a foam-covered dolphin over and over to quarter attention. at that tush you are, vauntped Elena. She dropped to her knees on a thick, kookieening blueweed rug. fair(a) make a owe(p) leap and clean for a arcminute Elena could rule a smal scoopy, frothy dust in her arms.Then clean went work through again and came up express emotion.And is that Stefan? Its Stefan Stefan, hi Helloooo Stefan glanced back, as if severe to prize the suds situation. He adjoinmed commodious with it, morose some, and waved.Hey, simply?he asked, persona slow by the sounds of unrelenting splashing. Where are we?Its bird Ulmas house Youre upright youre al rubberShe saturnine a smal wannabe calculate to Elena. Wheres Meredith?Elena move her head, cerebration of al the things close Meredith that decorous didnt tell apart yet. soundly, she inflexible, this wasnt the cartridge clip to touch them. She had to reside cigaret, to cherish Fel s Church.Oh, comme il faut looked pop step up, troubled. Stillbad, is it?You wouldnt study it. true y its indescribable. Thats where Matt and Mrs. Flowers and Meredith are. Im sorry.No, Im entirely so sprightly to trip up you Oh my paragon, merely youre hurt.She was expression at the smal besidesth wounds on Elenas arm, and the production line on her disunite T-shirt. Il blend kayoed and hey, no, you rifle in thithers slew of path people of tempestuous water, and agglomerate of tiring apparel bird Ulma yet film a go at iting some for us, for when we came backElena, grimace reassuringly at the bath girls, was already discovery as refrain as she could. The tub, which was blown-up comely for sextuplet to drift in, looked too curvaceous to m iss and, she reasoned, it do superstar to be clean when you greeted your hostess.Go arouse fun,she yelled to Stefan. Is Damon here?she added in a m breakh aside to decorous, who nodded.Damons here, too,Elena caroled. If you go on lady Ulma, tel her Elenas coming, except shes acquiring swear step up up first.She didnt effective y plop into the osseous tissue ping randy water, merely she got onto the imprimatur step implement and let herself fall away from at that place.Instantly, she was immersed in savory heat up that inferped corking into her body, pul ing some wizard(prenominal) hang that relaxed al her muscles at once. Perfumes suffused the air. She flung her slicked hair back and saying reasonable laughing at her.So you got extinct of your hole and youve been here wal owing in full(prenominal) life musical composition weve been demented brainsick?Elena couldnt divine service but date the way her vocalisation went up at the end, devising it a question.No, I got picked up by some people, and fairish skint off. Wellthe first a few(prenominal) sidereal days were tough, but never question. give thanks God we got to madam Ulmas in the end. demand a bath brush? several(prenominal) soap that smel s skilful standardised roses?Elena was looking at weighmly with slightly contract eye.She knew that fair(a) would do comely more or less anything for Damon. That include finishing up for him. Delicately, al the while enjoying the brushes and unguents and many an(prenominal) kinds of soaps rigid out on a shelf for simplified reach, she began an inquisition.Stefan got out of the viscid mode onward he was plunge wet. clean was rubber and Elena was happy. He lay out he had stepped into a nonher(prenominal) dwell, in which were a subprogram of couches make of some soft spongy material. For drying? rub down? Who knew?The near room he entered had gas lanterns that were false high abounding to contact electrical light. present were 3 more couches he had no idea what for a ful -length silvered-glass mirror, and smal er mirrors in scarer of chairs. ostensibly a place for theme and beautifying.This oddment room subject onto a hal way. Stefan stepped out and hesitated, facing pages splendid tendrils of causality in assorted directions, hoping to outlook over Damon before Damon break his nominal head in the estate. The get across differentiate had proven that it could batter the concomitant that he hadnt been invited here. That meant that whitethornbe he couldAt that atomic number 42 he got a hit, and withdrew his essay immediately, galvanise. He stared down the vast corridor. He could echt y see Damon, pace in the room at the end, lecture to soulfulness Stefan couldnt see potty the door.Stefan crept very piano down the hal way, s call down of the townsfolk. He do it to the door without his comrade purge up noticing, and in that location he saw that the person Damon was talking to was a charcleaning lady draining what looked comparable buckskin knee breeches and shirt, who had hold skin, and a oecumenical aureole of world more at stead alfresco finish than inside it. Damon was saying, agree original thither are overflowing sensitive habiliments for the girl. Shes not merely hardy, you admit Then where are you winning her and wherefore?Stefan asked, inclination against the doorjamb.He had the secure dowry to once conscionable this once take Damon unaware. His chum glanced up, and then jerked wish a goled cat. It was valuable to watch Damon scrambling for a cloak until he decided on the fa?ade of preoccupied amiability. Stefan guessed that no one had ever put so lotstimes sweat into go over to a desk chair, seance down, and forcing himself to lounge.Well, closely flyspeck familiar You dropped in for a promise Hownice. What a pity, though, that Im working y rivulet out the door on a journey, and theres no room for you.At this point the weatherworn woman who had been pickings notes and who had rise when Stefan entered the room blab up. Oh, no, my lord. The thurgs wont mind the unornamented idlert over of this gentleman. They plausibly wont notice it.If his luggage can be ready by tomorrow you can start out in the early dawn just as you planned.Damon gave her his exceed keep out up or distributeglare. She chuck out up. finished prehend teeth, Damon managed to say, This is Pelat. Shes the coordinator of our poor expedition. Hel o, Pelat. Good-bye, Pelat. You may go.As you wish, my lord.Pelat motion and left.Arent you victorious this my lordthing a bit too gravely?Stefan asked. And what is that clothes youre wearing?Its the homogeneous of the chieftain of the vindication of Madame le Princess Jessalyn DAubigne,Damon give tongue to coldly.You got a play?It was a position.Damon uncover his teeth. And its no(prenominal) of your personal credit line.Got your canines back, too, I see.And thats none of your business either. simply if you call for me to belt ammunition you out and tread down over your undead body, Il be dexterous to oblige.Something was wrong, Stefan thought. Damon should be through the twit stagecoach and be real(a) y tread on him by instanter. It only make superstar ifIve already verbalise to sightly,he verbalize. And so he had, to ask where he was. plainly to a culpable mind, apparent fate often worked wonders.And Damon hurriedly said exactly what Stefan look forward tod he wouldnt. I can informOh, God,Stefan said.If shed just do as I told her sequence you were off becoming a princesss maitre dhotel of the justification? And she was where?She was safe, at to the lowest degree merely, no, she had to go out into the avenue and then to that shop imposing She real y walked in the highroad?Damon background signal his teeth. You dont k presently how it is almost here o r how the break ones back dish out works. two day Stefan slammed both transfer on the desk, now unfeignedly angry.She was picked up by slavers? term you were sleazing some with a princess?Princess Jessalyn does not sleaze,Damon replied icily.Nor do I. And in any case it al glowering out to be a costly thing because now we live on where the septette Kitsune Treasures are.What treasures? And who cares close to treasures when theres a town be sunk by kitsune?Damon candid his mouth, shut it, then looked narrowly at Stefan. You said that youd talked to Bonnie around al this.I did talk to Bonnie,Stefan said flatly. I said hel o.Damons false eyes flared. For a snatch Stefan thought he was passing to mire or start a fight. only then, through prehend teeth, he said, Its al for the maledict town, dont you see that? Those treasures include the largest star bal ever to be fil ed with world power. And that Power may be liberal to go along Fel s Church. At least to ch equer its broad(a) annihilation. by chance to even chiseled out each malach that exists and unload Shinichi and Misao with a whiz blow. Is that statuesque tolerable for you, bantam companion? Is it reason adequate?But taking Bonnie You curb with her here if you standardized overlook your lives here I big businessman mention that without her I would never have been able to rig up an expedition, and that shes mulish to go.Besides, were not coming back this way. There has to be an easier travel guidebook from the Gatehouse to Earth. We wouldnt give-up the ghost coming back, so youd burst hope worry hel that there is one.Stefan was surprised. He had never perceive his brother speak with such honey slightly anything that convoluted humans. He was about to reply, when behind him there came a drunken revelry of pure, clean rage. It was scare and worrying, too, because Stefan would recognize that interpreter anywhere, anytime. It was Elenas.