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"Wellthen they should have so else, but then stopped, eyes narrowing "Soet one"

"I didn’t have dinner!"

"You ate with

Crap

"Oh Yeah Well, one, then," I said weakly, and slammed the door

Chapter Six

I kept my back to it until I heard the door to the hall open and close, and then let out a treht to et the heck out of here before he returned

So as I getting into the shower instead?

Maybe because the active part ofto share with the rest of ure it out once I’d been awake ht in the face, and I guess it helped By the tie wasn’t too bad, and washed a chimney’s worth of soot down the drain, I’d also chased down that elusive thought Which proved thatthat I needed a deht uy who knew more about demons than everybody else in the Circle combined

There was only one probleh ti around here and there, sooner or later ere going tothat couldn’t be fixed He was so convinced that the first tione back in time to see my mother, when it had been about curiosity instead of abject need, I hadn’t even thought about taking hi I’d already knohat his ansould be

And considering how that had gone down--de to kill her--it was probably just as well Pritkin’s reaction in cases of being shot at was to shoot back, and that wouldn’t have worked on that particular foe But demonsyeah, he knew all about them

Half of the vials that were so precisely and uncharacteristically arranged in the racks on his bookcase were potions for fighting various varieties of hell-spawn, since that hat he’d done before hitching his star to hting than the rest of the Corps had ever known In fact, he ht know as much about how I could break him out of his current predica to tell oing after hiht be hating his life right now, he wouldn’t wantto be in for awhenever I found hiht about that, too, I realized I wasn’t going to find him Not without help

I stepped out of the shower and into the hot air swirling around the bathrooed up, and a swipe across it with h It showed htly round with baby fat, with heat-reddened cheeks, blond curls plastered to uileless blue eyes Sopping wet, I looked about as dangerous as a stuffed rabbit Sopping wet, I lookedwell, like so rescue

I scowled, unconsciously ie I knew But while on hi, on hed

But unlike last night, when I’d been feeling helpless and battered and a lot like giving up, today my lack of badass credentials didn’t seeainst, it wouldn’t have e of them all, could have been a master-level vampire--hell, I could have had an army of both--and it wouldn’t have made a difference

Because I didn’t see any of the into hell, either

In fact, I wasn’t so sure that being ht have been wrong about one thing--I didn’t think Rosier was expecting me Why would he be? Everyone else I knew underestimated me, and always had Everybody else looked at me and saw the fluffy bunny in the e, I didn’t get the iht, orelse And even Pritkin, when he wasn’t runninglass and ht break

But I hadn’t broken

I wouldn’t break