resent from my niece. " She held out a blue plastic rabbit that fit snuggly in the palm of her hand. Shrike wound the rabbit up with a silver key in its side and the toy started to vibrate while a little bell jangled inside. "I suppose this could get stuck in an enemys throat and choke him, so its a one. Youre a bit bigger and a little smarter, though. I rate around a two. " The toy wound down and Shrike dropped it back into her pocket.
"Youre Death Valley. You know that? Beautiful, but harsh," said Spyder. He sat down on a sand dune and Shrike sat beside him. "I never got to ask, if youre blind how did you kill that demon?"
"Ive trained for this all my life. My father taught me. Then a friend, before he turned out to be exactly the bastard Id been told he was. Besides," she said, "theres blind and theres blind. "
"What does that mean?"
"Just what I said. "
"My head is spinning. I have this magic juju sight andve seen such demented shit in the last twenty four hours. I wouldnt mind being blind for a while. "
"Its not really magic sight, you know," Shrike said.
"Then what was it?"
"Memory," she replied. "When that demon had you, some part of it-saliva, a fragment of tooth, a fingernail-infected your blood. Everything youre seeing now youve seen all your life only youve chosen to forget it an instant later. If you remembered anything of this part of the world, it was in your dreams and nightmares. " Shrike pulled up Spyder and started walking. "Dont feel bad. Forgetting is the way it is with almost every living thing in this Sphere. But now you cant look away and you cant forget. "
"Poiso
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