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"No," I said,my foot "I want it all What is my job, exactly? What can I do, exactly?"

"You realize when your huet a crash course in gri like that"

"But what about until then? While I’m still here on earth?"

"Your only job as far as I’m concerned is to live This isn’t usually a proble as you have Ever"

"I’m only twenty-seven"

"Exactly And that’s about twenty-two years longer than most have ever lived"

"Reyes told me that, too Thatand they did their jobs for the next five hundred years or so incorporeally I’d alondered how they knehat to do I didn’t realize it would be downloaded intoall the fun facts to himself Just the important ones"

Another wave of heat suffused the roolanced up "I felt that"

"Lay it out forsouls is ain "I could tell you and piss off Rey’aziel, an entity weto win this thing Or I could take his lead and let you figure it out as you go"

"I vote for option A"

"I can only assure you that when you’re ready, you will see souls You will kno to mark them You already knohen to let people cross, when to help them or force them across You’re already on your way" He studied his hands "While you are the key player in all of this, Rey’aziel holds the most sway in your destiny"

"Why?"

"He’s the Thirteenth beast Or didn’t he lory, the darkness that undulated like a black ocean of night filling the rooood intel I didn’t need hi this font of information

"Reyes isn’t a beast, and he’s certainly not a hellhound"

"Close enough He was only slightly more civilized than the Twelve Why do you think Lucifer sent him to kill you?"