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sickly
grey mist. The doors flew open, and four Seirs leaped out of the
SUV, with death blades glimmering in their hands. The black kohl
that rimmed their eyes made them look like ugly masked
jesters.
    The largest mortal Kara had ever seen
took an enormous stride towards her. His gargantuan body towered
easily over the other Seirs, making them look like children rather
than full-grown men. She had never imagined that humans could be as
large as archangels.
    The giant’s pallid face was oblong and
warped, as though someone had hit him with a shovel and the skin
and muscles had stayed that way. His white flaky eyebrows crunched
into a frown, and he lowered his massive head and cocked it slowly
to both sides, like a tyrannosaurus examining its prey. Kara saw
her reflection in his dull blue eyes. He gave her the
creeps.
    “ Your soul is mine, angel,”
said the giant, in a guttural voice that sounded more animal than
human. He pointed a great fat finger at her. “I’m going to rip you
apart with my bare hands and eat you.” He made a twisting motion
with his hands, and his face cracked into an ugly smile.
    Kara called to David from the other
side of the SUV. “Go. Get Jenny and Peter out of here. It’s me they
want.” Kara pushed Peter roughly behind her.
    “ What? And leave you here
with all the fun?” yelled David. He shook his head and laughed. “I
don’t think so. I’ve been waiting for a long time for this. Shotgun on the green
giant.”
    “ Your soul is mine!”
repeated the giant Seir. He ignored David’s comments completely,
and Kara wondered if he was a little deaf.
    “ Not the brightest giant,
are you?” Kara continued to push Peter back with her hand and
lowered her voice. “Peter, get ready to run—when I say run .” She heard him
whisper in reply, and squeezed his arm reassuringly.
    “ Mine!” the giant lunged,
his hands going for Kara’s throat.
    “ Run!”
    With a great leap, Kara ducked and
sidestepped around the massive man. His fat fingers grazed the top
of her head and pulled out a chunk of Kara’s hair in the process.
She let out a yell. The ground shook under her feet, like the
aftershock of an earthquake. Kara felt his presence behind her and
ducked and rolled onto the ground just in time to avoid another
blow to the head from his giant fist. She whirled around. The other
three Seirs had formed a circle around her. The giant stepped
forward and closed the circle.
    His sick eyes desired Kara. His plump
fingers twitched at his sides, and his fat lips moved, but she
couldn’t hear what he was saying. Drool dribbled from the corners
of his mouth. She wanted to throw up.
    Her eyes locked with Peter’s through a
gap between two Seirs, and she gave him a reassuring smile. She
couldn’t see David.
    With their faces twisted in hunger,
the Seirs flicked their death blades in their hands, taunting her
to strike, laughing horribly. Kara could see in them the demons
they would eventually become.
    Over their sickening laughs, she heard
the racket of hundreds of mortals coming their way. Soon they would
reach them. She had to find a way to get out without hurting any of
the mortals. But there was nowhere else to go. She was
trapped.
    “ Hey, fart-face, over here!
Yeah, you heard me, you oversized ogre.” David leaped onto the hood
of the SUV. He winked at Kara and then jumped down into the middle
of the Seir circle. He landed in a puff of dust next to
Kara.
    “ Are you freakin’ mad?”
hissed Kara.
    “ Maybe just a little.”
David smiled impishly. “There’s nothing I won’t do for love,
baby.”
    Kara wanted to slap him. “It’s
decided. You’re totally mental.”
    David studied the giant and made a
face. “What the heck are they feeding you? You’re monstrous, you
big beast,” he laughed. “Is that a giant beer belly?”
    The giant didn’t take kindly to that.
He came at David with incredible speed. Muscular arms reached out
towards David’s head. David parried, but the giant