a little bitch.
“Then you are going to love this.” He sets down the vial and picks up one of the crosses.
If the holy water felt like that, I can only imagine what this is going to feel like. I close my eyes and prepare for whatever is coming.
Suddenly the door slams open. I hear a something whiz by my ear, opening my eyes in time to see a flash of white light hit Hipster dude right in the face. He lets out a scream as his body is enveloped in a white flame. I look back at the door and notice a young man with white hair holding a bow in his hands. He rushes over and cuts my hands free.
“Get your stuff. We have to get out of here fast.”
“And who the hell are you?”
“Zeke. Now, go.” He offers his hand to help me up. “You did good, the girls are out.”
I reach down and pick up my shit and put it back in my bag. Then I do the only sensible thing I can think of.
Run off with this dude that just saved my life.
-10-
“Why did you save me?” I ask Zeke as he drives away from the hotel.
“For some reason Uriel has a lot of faith in you. I was fine with leaving you in there for them to play with,” he says. “I was trying to save the girl. I wasn’t willing to leave her to that fate.”
Saving her I can understand. She may be acting strong, but they’ll break her. Once broken it would just be a matter of summoning up another demon to inhabit her body.
“We are already losing the war here on earth. The last thing I want to do is leave one of the good ones for them to corrupt.”
“Thanks for that,” I say. “What’s next?”
“We finish what you started. We take down Duncan Stansbury.”
“How do you know about that? The only people that know are Sara and…”
“Roman Nalar, yes.”
“Nal doesn’t seem like the type of person you would associate yourselves with.”
“He isn’t. If it were up to me, we would kill him before the demons realize how easily they could get in.” He hands me a piece of paper with some strange drawing on it. “Uriel has been using his body to relay information to you.”
“That doesn’t make sense. Why would an angel send me out to kill others. Especially knowing that Einuir would have to show his face from time to time.”
“We are too spread out, this has always been the case. We have used people to achieve our goals since the beginning.”
“Beginning?”
“Eve. Cain. Need more?”
“That still doesn’t make sense. I always hit targets that were a threat to Nal’s territory. Why would you care about that?”
“We used his mind to come up with targets that you wouldn’t question. Like the Sheriff.” He stopped the car and looked over at me. “Do you think we would let a human like Nal have an angel blade?”
I never thought about that. It really didn’t make sense for Nal to have a crew at the riverfront. It was well out of what he considered to be his territory, not to mention a wasteland.
“So the journal…?”
“Uriel believes that we may be able to save you. If you can find a way to control him, we may be able to find a way to expel him without killing you.”
“Then why not just give me the journal?”
“We had to make sure that you would be able to help us. Duncan is a fairly high ranking demon, the type that we need to start hitting hard if we want to turn this war around.”
“What if I just want to be left alone? What if I don’t want to help the losing side?”
“Because we know that you want to be with Linda and Jack again.”
I look over at him, shocked. “How do you know about that?”
“Self sacrifice is the one trait we admire most in humanity. Some of your kind are willing to give up everything in order to save those around you. We knew about Linda’s cancer. We know you made the pact to help cure her.”
“Then why would you let me do it if you were going to take her from me anyways?”
“You had her another two years of life without pain. She
“Then you are going to love this.” He sets down the vial and picks up one of the crosses.
If the holy water felt like that, I can only imagine what this is going to feel like. I close my eyes and prepare for whatever is coming.
Suddenly the door slams open. I hear a something whiz by my ear, opening my eyes in time to see a flash of white light hit Hipster dude right in the face. He lets out a scream as his body is enveloped in a white flame. I look back at the door and notice a young man with white hair holding a bow in his hands. He rushes over and cuts my hands free.
“Get your stuff. We have to get out of here fast.”
“And who the hell are you?”
“Zeke. Now, go.” He offers his hand to help me up. “You did good, the girls are out.”
I reach down and pick up my shit and put it back in my bag. Then I do the only sensible thing I can think of.
Run off with this dude that just saved my life.
-10-
“Why did you save me?” I ask Zeke as he drives away from the hotel.
“For some reason Uriel has a lot of faith in you. I was fine with leaving you in there for them to play with,” he says. “I was trying to save the girl. I wasn’t willing to leave her to that fate.”
Saving her I can understand. She may be acting strong, but they’ll break her. Once broken it would just be a matter of summoning up another demon to inhabit her body.
“We are already losing the war here on earth. The last thing I want to do is leave one of the good ones for them to corrupt.”
“Thanks for that,” I say. “What’s next?”
“We finish what you started. We take down Duncan Stansbury.”
“How do you know about that? The only people that know are Sara and…”
“Roman Nalar, yes.”
“Nal doesn’t seem like the type of person you would associate yourselves with.”
“He isn’t. If it were up to me, we would kill him before the demons realize how easily they could get in.” He hands me a piece of paper with some strange drawing on it. “Uriel has been using his body to relay information to you.”
“That doesn’t make sense. Why would an angel send me out to kill others. Especially knowing that Einuir would have to show his face from time to time.”
“We are too spread out, this has always been the case. We have used people to achieve our goals since the beginning.”
“Beginning?”
“Eve. Cain. Need more?”
“That still doesn’t make sense. I always hit targets that were a threat to Nal’s territory. Why would you care about that?”
“We used his mind to come up with targets that you wouldn’t question. Like the Sheriff.” He stopped the car and looked over at me. “Do you think we would let a human like Nal have an angel blade?”
I never thought about that. It really didn’t make sense for Nal to have a crew at the riverfront. It was well out of what he considered to be his territory, not to mention a wasteland.
“So the journal…?”
“Uriel believes that we may be able to save you. If you can find a way to control him, we may be able to find a way to expel him without killing you.”
“Then why not just give me the journal?”
“We had to make sure that you would be able to help us. Duncan is a fairly high ranking demon, the type that we need to start hitting hard if we want to turn this war around.”
“What if I just want to be left alone? What if I don’t want to help the losing side?”
“Because we know that you want to be with Linda and Jack again.”
I look over at him, shocked. “How do you know about that?”
“Self sacrifice is the one trait we admire most in humanity. Some of your kind are willing to give up everything in order to save those around you. We knew about Linda’s cancer. We know you made the pact to help cure her.”
“Then why would you let me do it if you were going to take her from me anyways?”
“You had her another two years of life without pain. She
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