Beyond the juniper burning in the corner and beyond the flowers there was a faint odor. It continued to get stronger and stronger with each deep inhal...tion. He recognized her perfume, still radiating from the hamper. He remembered how she smelled and how her kiss tasted, a taste sweeter than any sugar that would whirl around on his tongue and stay for hours. But now that wasn’t what he was tasting. Now all he could taste was the cold steel pressed against his tongue. The instant realization. And he was screaming in pain as he fell. The sound of that pipe rising and falling was like a fat man hitting a side of beef with a baseball bat. Tom G. just screamed and screamed over and over as I hit him.The one one the left ran at me and I swung around and caught his chin with the end of that broken pipe as I struck. I heard a sound like cracking as his teeth and jaw broke. The third one snapped to action and reached into his large baggy shirt and I threw that broken pipe at him. His. Don't worry.”Cait's mom gave us both a hug before we left and her twin sister did too even though I never met her before and Cait's dad kissed her forehead and said “Drive carefully.”And that's how Cait and I ended up alone in the car together and me being all horny again, and the thing about Cait and me is that we had never actually had sex. I mean, we'd done all kinds of stuff and we'd masturbated together since... well since we were way too young for it really, but we'd never even touched. Which are you willing to part with?”The undead’s crackling voice growled back. “My power is my birthright. I may have taken the cousins’ bodies, but I have been an aeromancer and hydromancer to fear since my birth. How do you intend to take that from me?”“Like this.” Typhon declared.The water glowed blue for a minute, then evaporated. All of it. A swirling spout of fluid spiraled into the sky, then joined with the massive cyclone and disappeared. What remained was a one-and-a-half-armed.