'Helena' let out a low whistle. "How did you know it was there?"
"Master has the sense not to put us in these easily detectable places."
'Lilianna' said, wiping the residual blood from her shoulder. The wound was already closing, the flesh knitting itself shut with unnatural speed.
"I almost got forced to be flushed out into existence prematurely. If I hadn't been placed inside the secondary gland instead of somewhere obvious, they would have found me and purged me before I ever woke up."
'Helena' made a popping sound, smacking her lips together with theatrical appreciation. "Master really is the best."
'Lilianna' saw that the blood had stopped dripping and the body was already okay to move.
She said, "Let's go."
What happened next defied every known human anatomy that Neville knew.
From the flesh of the upper backs of both 'Helena' and 'Lilianna'. Something simultaneously stabbed outward.
