Page 43 of Game on Askole

“When they bend down to grab me, I want you to bite them.”

“Me bite.”KeeKee wiggled excitedly.“Me bite. Me bite.”

“You are a clever female,”Tihar said proudly.

“It’s called being realistic. I’m not up to a physical fight just yet.”

“My power is yours to call on.”Tihar sent gossamer filaments of energy into my battered brain.

Whoa! My headache vanished, and I felt like I could take on an entire army.“Thanks. How did you do that?”

“It is one of the many benefits of being my mate.”

“Name another benefit?”

“Great sex.”

KeeKee quizzed,“What sex?”

“Ask Tae.”I wasn’t stepping on that landmine. Her grandmother could explain it to her when she was a lot older.

“Want know now.”

“Silence, youngling! The enemies must be dealt with first,”Tihar snarled.

“’Kay.”KeeKee shivered.“He scary.”

“Shhhh. Bad guys are coming.”Out of the corner of my eye, I watched as two small Genghis Khan wannabes marched down the hallway.

The wannabes stopped in front of my cell. The shorter one had a Fu Manchu mustache. The other one wore antlers on his helmet. Bet he was the jerk who hit me.

Antler Guy ran his hand over the control panel, and the energy barrier vanished. They stepped into the cell and broke into their dance.

Oh my God. Give me a friggin’ break. What freaks.

KeeKee inquired,“Why they jump like that?”

“I have no idea.”

“The dance is a ritual they must complete before each kill,”Tihar informed me.

“As in every friggin’ time?”

“They believe it badly frightens their opponents,”Tihar jeered.

I snorted.“Their casualty rate must be astronomical.”

“It is. Since Lilkee took over the Legionnaires, they have lost twenty thousand warriors.”

“Whoa. And their commanders don’t stop the idiotic behavior?”

“They encourage it. The Legionnaires think Lilkee is the reincarnated Goddess Anat.”

“Don’t tell me. Let me guess. She’s the goddess of chaos and stupidity?”

Tihar’s amusement brushed over my mind.“No, the goddess of fertility.”

“Half-breeds aren’t the only ones they want to purify, are they?”

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