SofiaThree people tried to stop me. Gracie, in the hallway, who stepped into my path with the expression of someone who had been asked to intercept and was taking the responsibility seriously. "Sofia. He asked not to be disturbed. He was very specific...""I know," I said, and kept walking.Elara, at the top of the stairs to the lower east wing, who did not step into my path but said, quietly, "He is not himself when he gets like this. I have seen it. I need you to understand what you're walking into.""Tell me," I said.She looked at me for a moment. "The parts of him that are not wolf the demon, the dragon, the vampire they don't integrate cleanly under extreme emotional pressure. The control that holds them together requires, it requires him to be calm. Or at least functional." She paused. "He is neither right now.""Has he hurt anyone when he's been like this?""No," she said. "But..""Then I'm going," I said.She looked at me for a long moment. Something moved in her expression,
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