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Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried toabout Simi She seldoirlfriend again" He seeed "It’s okay Akri et me as soon as he can Until then…" She pulled a white bib out of her coffin-shaped purse and tied it around her neck "You wanna coet eats, too? You the only one the Simi knoho can eat as much as she does"

"I would love to, Sirounded"

He nodded "Sorry"

She sighed heavily "Don’t be sorry The Simi’ll eat some for you Now cheer up It all be okay"

"I hope so, Si" Shenoise at him before she vanished

It wasn’t until then that he re

Simi never set off the alarhts to summon his protector

What? Wow, Caleb sounded put out

I have a situation here My walls are glowing and I don’t knohy He’d barely finished that last word before Caleb appeared in front of him

Without a word, Caleb turned a slow circle as he scanned the roo

Nick frowned as he watched hilazed over He spoke in deravely voice that wasfor you, Nick"

"Who?"

"Noir One of his deo warn your father"

Nick scowled "I don’t understand"

"And I don’t have tirowled "Nekoda! Come, sit on Nick until I return"

She flashed into the rooo anywhere"

"I’ll be back" Caleb vanished

Nick wasn’t sure he liked this at all "What’s going on?" he asked, hoping she’d bethan Caleb

"I’ your perimeter"

Lovely Just what he needed More demons anted him dead "Who is Noir, by the way?"

For once she actually answered his question "One of the six priods And he’s the one ns the Malachai"

Now he fully understood the bone-deep chill Histo summon him home "Why hasn’t one of you toldouldn’t have to That we could keep you protected from him"

"Why?"

"Because you and your father are what fuel hiets the majority of his power from the Malachai Every tie Do you understand?"

Yeah, he did and he hated it "Even if I’e hi That’s e didn’t tell you And why scare you when there’s nothing you can do about it anyway?"

For a full ed into a hell realod?"

"At the moment, trapped in what’s called the Nether Realm, or more correctly Azo to "How did he get trapped there?"

"Your father escaped hi him ever since the moment he broke free But for all of his other faults, Adarian is extreed to avoid capture Definitely not an easy thing to do"

"So the ith the Malachai and Sephiroth--"

"Sephirii Sephiroth is singular Malachai is plural too"

"So I would be correctly called a Malachoth?"

She snorted "No You’re always the Malachai, because unlike the Sephiroth, you are an aamation of evil The sum of it all as it were, which is why your name always takes the plural foruy wanted to hear ‘Hey, kid? You have pie body odors you never had before A body growing so fast it leaves you completely uncoordinated You’re socially aard

‘And if that’s not enough fun for you, you’re going to er and destroy the world’

Nice…

"You really kno to cheer a brother up, girl Thanks I alanted to be called the su"

Kody shrugged "Sorry"

"So tell me more about he who can’t be e of his bed and he did his best not to let that take his et him into some real normal boy trouble for once

No female other than his mom had ever been near his bed before

Down, boy This wasn’t the ti about that