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I watched him walk down the road until he rounded the curve and was out of sight Then I returned to the others and the rest of ourto do about Michael, Sarge?" I asked quietly

Crawford scrubbed at his face with both hands before letting them drop to his side "Fuck if I know, Kara" So about ould take care of hi before us, but fro that had been revealed by Lida and Trey, I now doubted that Ben Moran had known of the uardian, but "What if he does soh

I echoed his sigh Evening was falling and theto coh the trees A couple more days and it would be full, and su circles and preparing offerings andon the ground on the opposite side of the bulldozer from where the bodies of his sister and Trey still lay Michael hadn’t spoken a word since the shooting had ended and had acquiesced nu led to sit by the bulldozer He stared off into the distance, his ar on his knees

"He’s broken," I said "His best friend black his talent to kill, and the sister he adored actually hated his guts"

"Fuckers," Crawford ed "I can only guess from as said It sounds like their dad also had the ability to control earth eleoleot out of control Michael Senior was killed and Michael Junior and Lida were badly injured" I shook uess we’ll never know" Lida had probably blamed him for their father’s death--in an accident that was most likely Michael Senior’s own fault

"The uncle is his only fahtly She otten she ith us

I nodded

"Send hi her ar man "He would be cared for there, and his skills treasured and guarded"

I could only stare at the deestion Send him to live there? Was that even possible?

"Send hi rimace I never did tell Crawford about the whole de I cleared my throat uncertainly "Um, it’s not what you think, Crawford Iabout hell"

He slowly turned his head to look at

"Let an

Crawford listened to my explanation about the demons in stony silence I left out the little detail about Zack and Eilahn being de a suave a long sigh "Why couldn’t you sirinned "De!"

"What kind of life would Michael have in the demon realm?" I asked Eilahn after Crawford hadphone calls

"What kind of life would he have here?" she replied evenly

I shook h His life wouldn’t be unbearable here, he wouldn’t be a slave or anything like that--"

"Michelle Cleland," Eilahn interrupted I struggled to place the naotten it at all Michelle Cleland had been a victim of the Symbol Man, offered up as a sacrifice to the demonic lord Rhyzkahl by the serial killer After the Symbol Man had been killed, Rhyzkahl had returned to his realht she was dead," I said finally, brow furrowed "Rhyzkahl took her back to the de, and I assumed that" I trailed off I’d assu summoned, but now that I made myself actually think about it, that didn’t fit hat I’d come to learn about Rhyzkahl and the demon’s code of honor Michelle had not been the one to su her would have been a pointless act of eance, which was most certainly not the demon way