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and inspecting her fingertips.
    â€œLike mummification?” Sarah asked.
    â€œI was going more for taxidermy, but yeah,” he said, lowering her arm and frowning at the gaping hole in her chest.
    â€œNo, the family would like her as intact as possible,” Rose said. She couldn’t help but wonder if Dr. Frankenstein would be able to reanimate a body that had been dead several days and was as badly damaged as this one. If he could, his would be a secret worth knowing.
    â€œI’ll need the usual,” Kyle said. “Salt, myrrh, amber.” He made a face. “This isn’t going to be easy.”
    Four hours later, it was done. Kari was as well preserved as possible. Rose and Kyle placed her in a large box, and Sarah went to work putting a glamour on it, so that no one would see the body inside.
    When it was done, Rose dialed the number shehad for the doctor, and when he answered, she said, “We’re ready to ship. Please give me the address.”
    Seattle: Dr. Temar and Hecate
    Inside his laboratory Dr. Temar carefully, reverently opened the plain wooden box. Inside he saw what appeared to be dozens of gilded dried herbs and flowers. They were beautiful, delicate, and completely unreal. This was the glamour that English Rose had placed upon the crate to make sure that anyone who opened it would not see the body that was inside. He muttered a few words under his breath, ones she had told him would break the illusion.
    The air seemed to shimmer for a moment, light traced the outlines of the flowers, and then they faded and he saw the beautiful face of Kari. The witches had been true to their word. Although she had now been dead a couple of weeks, her body was in a state of preservation, though it was far from perfect.
    Something had exploded in her chest, shredding flesh and bone until there was not much left intact. Her throat had also been cut, a jagged line passing over the jugular. He had prepared himself for what he might see, but he couldn’t stop the tears that fell from his eyes and wet her lifeless cheeks.
    â€œKari, I swear I will bring you back,” he vowed.
    Inside their cages the cats screamed.
    Avalon: Eli
    Eli Deveraux walked the beaches of the island of Avalon like one in a dream. After the battle at the Supreme Coven headquarters in London, he had somehow ended up at Avalon. He still wasn’t sure how or why. What he did know was that he was different.
    He was stronger, more powerful. He could feel the vitality that he had taken from his father, Michael Deveraux, and from his rival, James Moore, when he had killed them that night. It had been Wind Moon; anyone who killed a witch or warlock on Wind Moon gained their power.
    He turned, and without lifting a finger or uttering a single syllable he set an oak tree on fire. Then just as easily he put it out with a sudden violent wind. He seemed to have control over three of the elements now, but the fourth, water, eluded him. As did a way off the island.
    At least he wasn’t in too much of a hurry. From his past experiences on the island he knew where everything was, including the kitchens and the larders. Most of the island’s demonic inhabitants seemed to have disappeared. Whether they had gone to aid their masters in the fight or had fled at the first opportunity, he wasn’t sure. Either way, he walked the island mostly undisturbed, watching the waves crash on the sand, the rushes wave in the wind. Toweringrocks gazed down on him like castle turrets, and sea birds cawed.
    With the island almost entirely deserted, though, it was easier to feel…something. Nicole had told him that there was a presence on the island. He had never felt it before, when he had come there to rescue her, but he could feel it now. It was as though something were watching him, peeping out at him through the cracks and crevices, through time itself. Whatever it was, the evil that emanated from it freaked out even him…and