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she said, her hair a crazed nimbus around her, “and your dominion ends here tonight.”
“Incorrect,” Julian challenged, voice echoing. “Preposterous. Don’t you know me, Babylon? Harlot?” He lifted his arms and spread them apart. “I am come, and I shall come again. Forever and always. Unto the end of all time.”
Biting her lip, Katelyn stood. She clasped her hands together, fingers interlaced around the ring, feeling its dangerous pull. Her eyelids were squeezed shut, head bowed sweetly as if in prayer. She let the darkness course over her, all that aloneness, so vast and devoid of light. Riding in, swallowing her like black sand. Distantly she heard Julian continue:
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