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Demons will be back soon," she said. "We must be gone by then."
WolfStar gave a harsh bark of laughter. "Have you fallen out with them, my beloved? Have
they not given you what you wanted? Have —"
Exasperated, StarLaughter threw caution to the wind and stepped close, leaning down to grab
WolfStar by the hair. She gave his head a wrench.
"Shut up! Do you want to live? Do you want to stop the Demons?"
"Are you trying to tell me" WolfStar whispered, "that their destruction is what you want?"
She stared flatly at him. "They betrayed me," she said.
"Goodness," he said. "How utterly surprising."
StarLaughter pursed her lips, but let his sarcasm pass. "If you come with me," she said, "I will tell
you who the true StarSon is, who controls the enchantment left in this land, and I will tell you where he
is."
And for all this, she thought, you will love me and aid me. StarLaughter's face softened at the
thought, and she half-smiled.
WolfStar's only response was a raised eyebrow. The bitch was mad!
"You bastard," StarLaughter said. "Would you lie there until the Demons ride their beasts over
you? Would you lie here until the north winds finally rob your desiccated flesh of its last drop of
moisture? Would you lie here until —"
"It seems," he said, "that at the very least I must lie here until you purge yourself of every last stored
curse of the last four thousand years."
She threw his head back until his skull cracked on the cold-baked earth. "You are worse than a
fool, WolfStar." She took a deep breath, then leaned down and grabbed his hair again. "Praise every star
that exists that the Demons have not yet thought to rob me of the scrap of power they condescended to
give me."
And she began to haul WolfStar effortlessly towards Spiredore, WolfStar howling with rage
and frustration and agony the entire way.

StarLaughter paused in the atrium of Spiredore and looked carefully about. Then she cocked her
head and listened.
Nothing.
WolfStar still hung from her hand, very slowly unwinding himself from the defensive huddle he'd been
forced to assume when she'd dragged him inside the tower.
What in curses' name was she doing?
StarLaughter ignored WolfStar's almost inaudible mutterings and groans, concentrating instead
on the silence of the tower rising above her. Should she risk it?
Ah, but what choice did she have! None! And WolfStar even less.
"Spiredore," she said. "We would go to the northern Icescarp Alps." And StarLaughter placed her
foot on the first of the steps, and walked upwards.
WolfStar screamed as she dragged him effortlessly after her and the edge of the first step dug into
his ribs and then his hip.
Within a few steps StarLaughter increased her gait to a trot, giving WolfStar's head an impatient
twist to shut him up.
Qeteb raged when he emerged from Spiredore to find StarLaughter gone. Not because he was
in any manner frightened of her, or even because he needed her, but because she had disobeyed him.
She had flaunted him, and no-one did that and lived to enjoy their small rebellion.
"Sense her!" he hissed to the other Demons, and they sent their senses scrying over the entire land.
Nothing.
Then Qeteb sent his far sight and his power raging over the land. Where? Where? Where?
But wherever it was, StarLaughter had managed to evade him.
How? She had no magic that could withstand his!