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- A vast silver hand struck her face, and the red-haired woman spun away. She was thrown like a rag doll into the comer.
- "Vicious monster!" Karn growled, looming before the woman. "Hateful, vicious monster!"
- Takara rose, blood replacing laughter on her lips. Fearlessly, she stared at the silver golem and growled, "Strike me again, Karn. Strike me again!"
- Shivering in fury, Karn backed away. He hissed. "I want to, but I will not. If I struck you again, I would kill you."
- Wiping the blood from her lip, Takara said, "Oh, no you wouldn't." In the strange light of candle and powerstones, her face changed. Red hair turned to gray skin and bone. Small black horns traced out the ridges of a rumpled skull. Human eyes became white, piercing orbs. The woman's whiplike body bulked into a powerful torso. Only Takara's mocking, bleeding smile remained the same. Otherwise, in her place stood Volrath.
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- Mercadian Masques, Chapter 20
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