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idiot spinning me around and omitting a gleeful, “ Wheeee !”
Eddie stepped in the way to block another rotation. “We’re here for a reason and this isn’t it.”
The dejected fire-demon pouted, “I know, but it was fun.”
Spinning to face me, Eddie instantly grimaced at the hate-filled gaze I’d fixed on him. “You look mad. Are you mad? Blink once for no and twice for yes.”
I blinked about a hundred and fifty times.
“I think that means she’s super mad,” Boil Face guessed.
“ Or, it means she wants to rip our limps off and beat us with them.”
I blinked twice.
Eddie leaned his bony elbows against my leg and rested his chin on his hands. “You have every right to be mad, but we needed to talk to you and had to find a way to do it so that you would actually let us talk. Since the very first thing you did when you saw was turn into punchy-kicky girl, I think even you can agree that our method here was an effective one.”
I blinked once and sincerely wished I could follow it up with a hand gesture.
“No? Really ?” one twin scoffed.
“Now she’s just being argumentative ,” his brother tagged on with an indignant huff.
“How about this,” Eddie reasoned. “If I free you will you promise to listen?”
I answered with two rapid blinks.
“Listen without hurting us?” One of Eddie’s eyebrows drew up toward his wicked widow’s peak. “Because we’d be acting in good faith and letting you go.”
I blinked once, hesitated long enough to think really hard, then blinked a second time.
“Good!” Eddie grinned and clapped his hands together. “Then we can carry on this conversation like …”
“Oh, look at me ! I’m a pretty, pretty girl that likes to dance and twirl my long beautiful hair.”
All eyes flicked toward Red … and Big Mike. Red had draped Mike’s robe over his head to give the building-sized Guide mock flowing locks.
Eddie cleared his throat. “Uh … you do realize when I unfreeze her, he’ll be free, too?”
Red stopped dancing and snatched the garment off Mike’s head. “I’m sorry. Please don’t kill me.”
If laser beam eyes were an ability of Mike’s, Red would’ve been eviscerated.
Eddie turned my way, his face full of apology. “We just want to talk, no violence. If we wanted to hurt you we could easily have done it while you were frozen. You get that, right?”
Begrudgingly, I blinked twice.
Eddie spoke a few words I couldn’t make out and my momentum picked right up where it left off. I lurched forward and fell to the ground in a heap of my own limbs.
Quickly untangling myself, I leapt up with my hands still balled into fists.
“You promised!” Eddie squealed and shielded himself behind his arms.
“I did.” My hands fell, but only a little. “Talk fast.”
“First things first, your boys are going to be up soon. Can you make sure they don’t pummel us? Please ?”
“I’ll do my best, but they’re both real independent thinkers.”
A split second later the spell wore off. A snarling, snapping lion and an enraged winged-thug raged forward, destruction blazing in both sets of eyes. Calling forth my telepathy, I held them at bay, but purposely allowed them enough wiggle room to keep our unwanted guests from getting complacent.
“Like I said, talk fast.”
Gabe morphed back and covered himself with an old garage sale sign that had been leaning against the wall. “You almost ruined my wedding! I couldn’t care less what you have to say!”
“Your wedding to the girl you just abandoned in the Spirit Plane?” By his expression it seemed to physically hurt Eddie to point this out, but he took the chance and did it anyway. “Maybe we were doing you a favor?”
I t took my telepathic hold, both hands on his chest and a fair amount of super strength to stop Gabe from ripping the trembling demonic twerp apart. “ How did you know about that? ” he spat through elongated teeth.
“We were following you!” o ne twin
Eddie stepped in the way to block another rotation. “We’re here for a reason and this isn’t it.”
The dejected fire-demon pouted, “I know, but it was fun.”
Spinning to face me, Eddie instantly grimaced at the hate-filled gaze I’d fixed on him. “You look mad. Are you mad? Blink once for no and twice for yes.”
I blinked about a hundred and fifty times.
“I think that means she’s super mad,” Boil Face guessed.
“ Or, it means she wants to rip our limps off and beat us with them.”
I blinked twice.
Eddie leaned his bony elbows against my leg and rested his chin on his hands. “You have every right to be mad, but we needed to talk to you and had to find a way to do it so that you would actually let us talk. Since the very first thing you did when you saw was turn into punchy-kicky girl, I think even you can agree that our method here was an effective one.”
I blinked once and sincerely wished I could follow it up with a hand gesture.
“No? Really ?” one twin scoffed.
“Now she’s just being argumentative ,” his brother tagged on with an indignant huff.
“How about this,” Eddie reasoned. “If I free you will you promise to listen?”
I answered with two rapid blinks.
“Listen without hurting us?” One of Eddie’s eyebrows drew up toward his wicked widow’s peak. “Because we’d be acting in good faith and letting you go.”
I blinked once, hesitated long enough to think really hard, then blinked a second time.
“Good!” Eddie grinned and clapped his hands together. “Then we can carry on this conversation like …”
“Oh, look at me ! I’m a pretty, pretty girl that likes to dance and twirl my long beautiful hair.”
All eyes flicked toward Red … and Big Mike. Red had draped Mike’s robe over his head to give the building-sized Guide mock flowing locks.
Eddie cleared his throat. “Uh … you do realize when I unfreeze her, he’ll be free, too?”
Red stopped dancing and snatched the garment off Mike’s head. “I’m sorry. Please don’t kill me.”
If laser beam eyes were an ability of Mike’s, Red would’ve been eviscerated.
Eddie turned my way, his face full of apology. “We just want to talk, no violence. If we wanted to hurt you we could easily have done it while you were frozen. You get that, right?”
Begrudgingly, I blinked twice.
Eddie spoke a few words I couldn’t make out and my momentum picked right up where it left off. I lurched forward and fell to the ground in a heap of my own limbs.
Quickly untangling myself, I leapt up with my hands still balled into fists.
“You promised!” Eddie squealed and shielded himself behind his arms.
“I did.” My hands fell, but only a little. “Talk fast.”
“First things first, your boys are going to be up soon. Can you make sure they don’t pummel us? Please ?”
“I’ll do my best, but they’re both real independent thinkers.”
A split second later the spell wore off. A snarling, snapping lion and an enraged winged-thug raged forward, destruction blazing in both sets of eyes. Calling forth my telepathy, I held them at bay, but purposely allowed them enough wiggle room to keep our unwanted guests from getting complacent.
“Like I said, talk fast.”
Gabe morphed back and covered himself with an old garage sale sign that had been leaning against the wall. “You almost ruined my wedding! I couldn’t care less what you have to say!”
“Your wedding to the girl you just abandoned in the Spirit Plane?” By his expression it seemed to physically hurt Eddie to point this out, but he took the chance and did it anyway. “Maybe we were doing you a favor?”
I t took my telepathic hold, both hands on his chest and a fair amount of super strength to stop Gabe from ripping the trembling demonic twerp apart. “ How did you know about that? ” he spat through elongated teeth.
“We were following you!” o ne twin
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