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<strong>Chapter</strong><br />

SEVENTEEN<br />

As soon as he was outside, Ethan pulled his knife free,<br />

forced up his coat sleeve and the shirtsleeve beneath,<br />

and cut his forearm.<br />

“Velamentum ex cruore evocatum. ”<br />

Concealment, conjured from blood.<br />

He didn’t need to feel the resonance of the spell in<br />

his body and in the street beneath him to know that he<br />

was taking a great risk. The spell would allow him to<br />

walk the lanes without being seen. Sephira and her<br />

toughs could walk right past him without knowing he<br />

was there. But if the conjurer was still hunting him, the<br />

casting of the spell might well alert him to Ethan’s<br />

whereabouts. And Ethan suspected that a man of such<br />

power would see right through a concealment charm.

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