6 “And that about summarizes my abilities, to my knowledge,” Alice finished as she followed Aeric around a corner in a musty, dark series of hallways. Aeric glanced at her, amused at the way she doggedly kept up with him despite her three inch heels. His mate was equal parts pretty and determined, it seemed. “Well, to be fair,” he said, swinging his flashlight back and forth when he came to a fork in the hallway. “You can literally sing someone to death, which is frightening. Everything you listed after that sort of pales in comparison.” “Ah, yeah,” Alice said, frowning as she toed aside a clump of frayed carpet. They were somewhere deep in the bowels of a blood brothel, in a bolt-hole stashed in the Gray Market. It wasn’t a particularly impressive date, as they went, but Alice seemed u

