you 've waged a war against the insects and the world is safe once again , from the intimidating ant colony . thank you , sir , for all you have done for your country . '' izzian 's skin began leaking again . he 'd made a complete fool of himself , and the girl 's sarcasm was not helping . '' well , i 'm watching bats . there are quite a lot of them out here and well , do you like
bats

'' nineteen , '' she said , and he loosed a breath that could have been sadness or relief or maybe both , and told her that made her magic even more impressive . she debated saying that he would be less impressed once he learned of her nickname for him , but winked at him instead . rowan was frowning when she caught up to him , but said nothing . as they walked away , gavriel murmured , '' good luck ,
rowan

tom and jodie were running for their lives and they descended several flights of stairs without the creatures catching them . but they were getting closer all the time . then , when they were about half-way down , tom felt one of the creatures jump on him , making him and jodie fall forward down the stairs . they landed on the one of the wide corner stairs and the creature began to claw wildly at tom , who was now on top of
jodie