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I stared at that, but it still didn’t make much sense

Held where?

Where do you think?

Damn it, Caleb!

Well, what did you expect? That they were just going to leave hih all that, and they let R just TAKE hi to think Caleb only used one finger One that I was going to break off

He doesn’t have him He’s with the council And before you freak out, Casanova said there are rules

Rules? These are demons!

And he’s part of their ruling class And they have privileges, in case you didn’t notice

I flashed on the crazy chariot driver in the souk, and the way everyone had practically kohile he ran them down Yeah, I’d noticed But Pritkin was half huet a lot of respect The council sure hadn’t seeht just be good taste

What privileges? I typed

Like they can’t kill him w/o a trial

Great That made my stomach feel so much better Wens it?

What?

WHEN IS IT?

Don’t yell atfrom hours to days

How am I supposed to knohen that is? I didn’t subscribe to the Hell Gazette

C said you’ll kno get soht, and started typing in another e stubbornness, either that or he’d turned off his phone Because I didn’t get anything back

I lay there for a while, trying again And again, and again, because I can be stubborn, too But I finally gave up, panting, because even texting was exhaustinginstead

I didn’t understand a godda I knew, in order to get to Pritkin And when I finally did, what happened? He ended up right back where he started, only possibly even worse off Because at least his father didn’t want to kill him!

And the council shouldn’t have, either I’d expected to have to deal with Rosier; I’d anticipated probleht much about the demon council, except as a sort of finish line Because they shouldn’t give a damn about any of this!

But there’d been plenty of evidence to the contrary downstairs And it just seemed crazy to e percentage of their own guards to watch over one little half deht Pritkin was Godzilla or so

And okay, he’d tried to kill one of them once But since the one in question had been Rosier, who they didn’t appear too fond of anyway, I’d have thought a century would be enough tiet over that His father obviously had

And as far as his connection withto the council? I’d even helped the down some ancient demon that had its panties all in a twist Adet killed by said demon, but still They had made out okay, too

So what the hell was the deal?

Based on what Rosier had said, it seeotten it into their heads that Pritkin and I weresome elaborate plan to shift back in tiest WTF of all, because since when did I go around changing ti my best to try to avoid it, despite soo on soods anyway Not a bunch of de I had the pohich I didn’t, whichharder now, but I wasn’t sure what to blame It could be exhaustion It could be the lack of food since breakfast, because I hadn’t had ties in the souk, even if I’d been willing to risk Rosier’s Revenge It could be the council being staffed by a bunch of paranoid nut jobs