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"I need an ie of the runes" Justin already knehat he’d see

The screen displayed a set of symbols, each labeled with a name Most were nonsensical, save for one he knew very well since he saw it on his own skin every day He asked the screen to identify it: Ansuz--a rune with disputed ods, particularly Odin Near it, Justin saw algiz, the protective rune the ravens had taught him

On and on it went, and Justin saw pieces of his life play out before hi he could find, and after a while, he started reading the sarew bleary, and he was about to finally call it a day when one line caught his eye:

Odin is also accompanied by tolves, Geri and Freki

"Clear the search," he told the screen "And call Demetrius Devereaux"

Geraki answered after only a couple of seconds, and Justin wondered if he’d been waiting for the call like solass eye to co flowers and hints about the ravens?"

"I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about I h to keep up with your razor-sharp brain"

Throwing so to improve this situation, so Justin took a deep breath and tried to backtrack "A man talked to me at a bar today He had one eye and went off about the pursuit of knowledge He gaveso awesoht andonly I knew about Did you set it up?" Justin deet someone to do this?"

Geraki looked completely dumbfounded, which would have been enjoyable under different circu suddenly hit His eyes widened in awe, and his cheeks flushed

"He appeared to you! How? Why? You’ve done nothing but show disrespect, while I serve faithfully, but you’re the one he comes to in the flesh?" A moment later, Geraki closed his eyes and looked pained "I shouldn’t have said that I have no right to question od’s actions I’m only here to listen to his voice"

"You can say his name now," said Justin bitterly "Odin"

Geraki opened his eyes "You know his name?"

"Yeah, it took like five seconds with a streaod coravitate to people with the sae"

"You have the blood of a dozen cultures in you, and one of the was Geraki’s specialty, and he seemed to be at ease back in faod needs a priest with those same qualities"

"I’m not his priest I’m not even a follower"

Geraki s yearly investigations "No, but you’re about to become his student I asked what it’d take to ot those things You shouldn’t have gotten them, but you did"

Justin faltered He had kind of said that

"Learning isn’t the sa devotion," he told Geraki

"No, but it’s an ie this ti to think of how to dodge it How could he be so stupid? He’d been so, so careful with Mae, only to stumble into so," Geraki added "Think back to exactly what you said I asked if those things would get you to begin to train in our god’s wisdo he could get out of this "My exact words were ‘you bet’" But it’s not going to be good enough this ti You ain, and now you’ll learn what it ht with the kind of zealous fire that should have made Justin call the authorities "Welco with you"