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feel the need to caution you about using those powers for something so trivial. Remember, magick comes with a cost. Even for a Malachai. Ain’t no such thing as a free ride in life, my friend. Sooner or later, we all pay the piper. And when that cretin comes home to roost, he always craps right on your head and ugly, oversized shirt.”
    â€œDuly noted.” Nick sidled up to Kody. “You mad at me, cher ?”
    She paused to rake a suspicious grimace over him. “Uh … should I be? What mischief have you wrought now that I don’t know about?”
    â€œFor sending Aeron to spy on you.”
    That took every bit of friendliness out of her stare. In fact, he could flash-freeze fire with that stare, and a certain part of his anatomy crawled back into his body as she scorched him with it. “When was this?”
    â€œWhile I was mind-melding with Head.”
    She glowered even more. “Aeron didn’t come into the room.”
    â€œYeah, he did. I sent him straightaway.”
    â€œNo, he didn’t,” they said in unison.
    His stomach knotting, Nick gave each one of them a bitter glare as they headed for their next period. “Yes, he did. Because he knows I would not be happy with him if he didn’t. And an unhappy Malachai kicks his culo loco .”
    â€œWell,” Caleb said drily, “we can stand here and argue like children until one of us sticks his tongue out at the other, or you can call him and see. But I’m here to tell you that the Celt did not step foot in that room. I’d have known it. I didn’t even smell him in the building.”
    Kody groaned. “I wish you two would lay off the odor thing with each other. Neither of you smell. Good grief.”
    Ignoring her chiding, Nick pulled out his phone. “Prepare to eat those words, Caliboo. One slice humble pie coming up, piping hot.” He dialed for his favorite surly war god. Then waited.
    And waited.
    And waited some more.
    It rolled to voice mail.
    Okay, that was not good. Scowling, he met Caleb’s smug expression. “Why would he have left when he said he wouldn’t?”
    â€œIt’s Aeron.”
    â€œExactly. He’s not you .” Nick put the phone in his pocket. “He doesn’t know a lot of people here. It’s not like him to run off and visit anyone. Or go trolling after loose women on Bourbon Street … unlike a certain Daeve I know.” He cleared his throat meaningfully.
    â€œYou’re just jealous you can’t go into any of those clubs, baby face.”
    Luckily, Kody didn’t take him seriously and ignored that jibe. “He has a point, Caleb.”
    Caleb sighed. “Yeah, he does. Two, if you count the one on his head, and I hate it. ’Cause if Aeron’s missing, it doesn’t bode well and I’m getting really tired of ill bodings.”
    Nick wrinkled his nose at the term. “Ill bodings? Is that a phrase?”
    â€œOf course it is. I just made it up.”
    Nick snorted. “Fine. Whatever. We’ve got to find him. If for no other reason, we don’t need him to do something that could out himself in public.”
    â€œYeah,” Caleb said sarcastically. “They have laws against exposing yourself in public.”
    Kody let out a long-suffering sigh. “I think I know now why the gods made the two of you so incredibly hot. You’d be insufferable, otherwise.”
    Laughing at her uncharacteristic barb that proved she’d been hanging out with them way too much, Nick paused in the hallway as he saw Nathan walking past them.
    A few feet away, Nathan stopped and turned around in a slow circle as he attempted to decipher their misbegotten room numbers and his schedule.
    He almost felt sorry for the kid since he still remembered his first days here when he’d been just as lost and confused. The room numbers on the first floor had been arranged by some chaos demon bent on