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s stomach lurched. The smell of charred flesh reached his
nostrils.
Facade gazed calmly on Reon's handiwork, and gestured. He saw one of Reon's
rainbow portals flash into existence, and Reon Kosaka carelessly tossed Marcia's body
through it. He saw it land with a sickening splash in a murky swamp just as
the portal closed.
The sorceress smiled down at him. "Well, now that you've had a
pathetic child, you can appreciate me all the more."
Anger surged up in his throat. "WHY?" he choked, stone eyes that
couldn't cry burning with the need to weep.
Facade looked disappointed. "Oh, come, come, now, Obsidian. All this
over a girl? Why, do you want to make me positively jealous? I might, oh,
destroy your sister by accident, after all, in a fit of jealousy."
He swallowed his anger and grief with much effort, determined not to
let Satin die at this madwoman's hands if he could help it. Marcia was
dead. That meant he had to find a means of avenging her, but not at the cost
of another he loved. Obsidian managed not to flinch away as the sorceres
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