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The only reason the police are not on our doorstep accusing us is the report from several witnesses who all swear it was a gang of human teenagers. with Red eyes." Stevie Rae swallowed down the sick taste of bile in the back of her throat. "It was the red fledglings I left at the depot. They messed with the witnesses' memories, but none of them are Changed, so they don't have the ability to cover up everything." "They couldn't wipe those blazing red eyes from the humans' memories," Lenobia said, nodding in agreement. Stevie Rae was out of the car and moving toward the school. "Dragon hasn't gone after them, has he?" "No. I've kept him busy with small groups of fledglings. He's already started going over self-defense skills with them in case of another attack from Raven Mockers." "Lenobia, I seriously think that one in the park was a fluke. I'll bet he's miles away from Tulsa by now." Lenobia made a dismissive gesture. 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Before he'd totally materialized, he'd asked Stevie Rae: I can chase away Darkness, but if I do so, you will owe a debt to Light, and that debt is that you will be forever tied to the humanity inside that creature over there-the one you called me to save. She'd answered with no hesitation: Yes! I'll pay your price. So the dang bull had zapped her with some kind of <a href="http://ec.tcren.cn/view.php?id=9"><strong>Puma Running: Buy Online Puma Shoes</strong></a> Light bullshit, and that had done something to her insides. But was that really the truth? Stevie Rae twirled a curl around and around while she thought back. No-it had ch mbt chapa anged between her and Rephaim before the black bull showed up. It had happened when Rephaim had faced Darkness for her and taken on the pain of her debt. Rephaim had said she belonged to him. Today she'd realized he was right, and that scared her worse than Darkness itself. Stevie Rae "Okay, so, we all here?" 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