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Never, ever had I wanted to kill any demon more than I wanted to kill Butterfly at that moment But I couldn’t Not yet "What do you want?"

"You know, ever since you first conjuredbut, ‘Get the hell away fro to stab you with this bronze dagger, Butterfly,’ or ‘How about I humiliate you to death, Butterfly?’ You only ever su The rest of the time, you’d rather see me dead"

"What do you expect? You’re a parasite"

Butterfly sniffed "That doesn’t s So here’s what I want I’ll tell you where Pryce took your zoive you the actual address--if"

I leaned forward, waiting

"If you promise to be nice to me"

Okay, this had to be one of thoselike everyday reality to Salvador Dali–land "You want me to be nice to you?"

"Yeah, yeah, I know A personality like yours, it’s asking too much, isn’t it?" Butterfly’s voice went all pouty "I knew you couldn’t do it"

With an effort, I er I’d conjured vanish "Define ‘nice’"

"What?" Butterfly’s eyes fixed on my empty hand

"When you say that you want me to be nice to you, what exactly do you mean?"

"Well, you won’t threaten to kill me, for starters That sort of talk puts a real crimp on a relationship"

"No threats What else?"

"No actually trying to killor hurin and bear it while you torotta eat" Butterfly flew close, hovering inches in front of ht maybe we couldyou know, talk" Its beady eyes actually looked sincere, even hopeful

"Let me make sure I understand You want to me to sit down and have a friendly chat with you"

"Yeah" A forked tongue darted froainst everything I’d ever learned about deot a toehold into your psyche, you killed it, the faster the better And yet I’d been living with this one for weeks It had stoppedMab, and it had risked its life to find out where Pryce had taken Tina Butterfly drove me crazy, but this demon also had information I needed

"You promise you have the actual street address, here in the Ordinary, of where the Old Ones are holding Tina?"

"Yeah When Pryce left, it was still dark in your world Instead of following him back into the deht"

I bitI was about to make a terrible ht I’ll be nice to you For one hour"

"That’s all I’" For a moment, Butterfly looked almost weepy But the sentimental expression hardened to a sneer "Your head would explode if you tried for any longer than that"