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You’re a fool!”
    Blink!
    Eep disappeared and reappeared latched onto Scorch’s face.
    The Nameless Two in the robes dashed in. Each blade ran straight through Scorch’s belly. No innards or blood were spilled, but something else came out. Scorch’s rage.
    A puff of energy exploded.
    The Nameless Two were flipped head over heels.
    Melegal found himself smashed into one of the side walls. Jasper was crushed under his weight. Holding his ringing head, he pulled her up. “You might want to stay down.”
    The dark haired woman nodded. “Who in Bish are these people?”
    Melegal turned away, saying, “I don’t think they’re people.”
    ***
    Cocky, that was Scorch. Trinos had been hiding from him and spying on him for months. She’s learned all she could about him, about her world Bish. And now the time had come to take him down and take her world back.
    Scorch’s blast that had slung off the Nameless Two had done nothing to her. Her feet were rooted to the life force of Bish. Nothing could move her if she did not let it. But now it was time to turn all of her frustration loose. With the speed of an arrow she plowed into Scorch, fists first.
    Whack!
    The blow drove him clear through the wall of the building. She flew through the hole and found him half covered in a sand dune. She jerked him out by the feet and started hammering away.
    Pap! Pap! Pap! Pap! Pap!
    She filled his face with fists of steel. She turned loose her anger. Her frustration. Her blows came harder and harder.
    Whap whap whap whap whap!
    This wasn’t a battle of the destruction of the body.
    Whap!
    It was a battle of wills.
    Whap!
    In all of her observations of Bish, she had concluded one thing.
    Whap!
    The strongest will would survive, and she had to break his.
    Whap whap whap!
    Scorch flailed away only to get hammered again and again. His mind screamed to hers, “Stop this! Stop this!”
    “No! I will not relent!”
    Scorch had no more power than she. Both of them were fated to die in this world one day, but if he prevailed, no doubt it would end much sooner. Bish was her baby, and she would not allow that to happen.
    “Please, Trinos, please,” Scorch pleaded. “Let us work this out.”
    “Over my dead body!” Her eyes let out a red-hot blast of fire straight into his face.
    Face smoldering, Scorch’s hands latched onto her wrists and squeezed.
    Her bones popped. She screamed. “Aiieeeee!”
    Scorch unleashed a force from his own eyes that sent her skipping across the sands. “My, that’s quite a dust-up you served. Good for you, Trinos. Now what was that you said before you started screaming? His entire body became pure energy and power. “Oh yes, ‘Over my dead body.’ Consider it arranged.”

 
     
    CHAPTER 10
     
     
    “How pleasant of my son,” Sidebor said. He placed his hands on the female underling’s waist and stared into her eyes. “But I’d figured he’d just kill me outright rather than do it this way.”
    The stunning underling woman, ebony skinned and delicate like a flower, had strength behind her lavender eyes. She said, “We can skip the intercourse and I can just slay you where you stand if you like.” She stroked his cheek with her pearl-white fingernails. “Would you prefer that?”
    He pushed her back toward the small bed and shoved her down. “Enough foreplay. Who are you?”
    Leaning back in a provocative manner, she tilted her gorgeous face to the side. “My name?”
    “No, my name. Of course your name.”
    “I am Elypsa.” She batted her long eyelashes. “Don’t you find me divine?”
    “I could drink of your lips all day, Elypsa, but I’ve never fallen for that trick before.”
    “You are wise.” She reached over for him. “Come. Lie with me.”
    Sidebor backed away. “Do you know who I am?”
    “I’m not paid to ask questions. I’m paid to–”
    “Don’t jest with me!”
    She rolled her eyes. “Fine then. Yes, I know who you are, Master Sidebor. But that was only revealed to