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Eyes of the Beholder
Eyesofthebeholder
Eyes of the Beholder
Author Derek Landy
Cover Artist None
Date Published 29 January 2015
Date Set In 2013
Publisher HarperCollins
No. of pages 11
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Publication Order
Preceded by
Theatre of Shadows
Followed by
The Button

Eyes of the Beholder is a short story focusing on Billy-Ray Sanguine, set a few months after The Maleficent Seven and shortly before Last Stand of Dead Men.

It was written for, and released in, the Armageddon Outta Here paperback, along with Death and Texas.

Plot[]

Billy-Ray Sanguine is elated after Tanith Low agrees to marry him, and celebrates by killing a Sensitive in Nantucket who falsely claims to have found Darquesse, at Tanith's request.

Three mercenary Tunnellers and old companions of Sanguine from Texas - Gepard Voke, Persephone Grief, and Barnaby Skulk - lure Sanguine to an old house using their razorworms, which are revealed to be the creatures that interfered with Tanith's attempt to steal the God-Killer sword in the English Sanctuary. The group have been hired by the American Sanctuary to arrest Sanguine for the death of Quintin Strom, but as arresting a Tunneller is near-impossible, they intend to kill him instead.

Voke admonishes Sanguine for killing for free, rather than taking advantage of the inevitable War of the Sanctuaries by hiring himself out. The group condemns Sanguine for falling in love and doing what he's told, but Sanguine rebukes them, arguing that he's his own man doing things for his own reasons, while the others are lackeys of the Supreme Council.

When the three of them attack him, Sanguine fights and kills both Persephone and Barnaby. Voke reminds him that they used to be his friends, but Sanguine disputes this, saying the closest thing he has to friends are people he hasn't killed yet. Voke tells Sanguine that something is wrong with him, and Sanguine agrees: he's in love.

After killing Voke as well, Sanguine takes the razorworms as a wedding gift for Tanith.

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