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. Then I had to
do it again. And again. There were a number of things I wanted, and none of
them near.
In the meantime, the combatants showed no sign of slackening, and their
claws struck sparks from the cave's walls. They had cut each other in
countless places and were now covered with dark gore. Luke had awakened
during all of this, propped himself, and was staring fascinated at the
colorful conflict. How long it might hold his attention I could not tell. It
would be important for me to have him awake very soon now, and I was pleased
that he had not started thinking of other matters yet.
I was cheering, by the way, for the Jabberwock. It was just a nasty
beast and need not have been homing in on me in particular when it was
distracted by the arrival of its exotic nemesis. The Fire Angel had been
playing an entirely different game. There was no reason for a Fire Angel to
be stalking about this far from Chaos unless it had been sent: They're
devilish hard to capture, harder to train, and dangerous to handle. So they
represent a considerable expense and hazard. One does not invest in a Fire
Angel lightly. Their main purpose in life is killing, and to my knowledge no
one outside the Courts of Chaos has ever employed one: They've a vast array
of sensessome of them, apparently, paranormal-and they can be used as Shadow
bloodhounds
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