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"Okay But you coic part of a guy that you don’t want to talk about gets stolen and I start thinking zo like that The guy wasn’t dead I was real careful about that"
"So careful this girl’s skull is cracked"
"Can you fix her?"
"I’ve fixed worse" He looks over at Candy "You want to get irl is all the way dozing before I take my hand off"
"How ets six fist-size objects from an old medical cabinet Each of the objects is wrapped in dark purple silk She sets thera and unwraps them They’re six shiny pieces of sora, takes two of the stones, and places them on each side of her head Candy places others over her heart and in her hands Kinski puts the last piece, the sets old, unglazed clay jars from under the table, pours several oils onto his hands, rubs thera’s face The oils sives Kinksi a carved wooden stylus and he draws syet a better look at thea spell on her, but I don’t knohat kind I’ve never seen one like it before I recognize the characters surrounding the central circle and seven-pointed star, however The syht me some spells from ancient books written in that script Kinski can’t be a Hellion because only Lucifer can walk out of Hell But Hellions have plenty of huroupies and satanic assholes Kinski can’t be one, though Vidocq would know and he’d never send uy Still I slip my hand under my coat and touch Azazel’s knife
Kinski sets down the stylus He’s finished the spell and the stones around Allegra begin to glow They shine right through her I can see the outline of her veins and arteries,quietly I try to listen to the words, but all I want to do is cover et hold of the knife with ainst htly touchesthe knife
"It’s okay," she whispers "Relax Everything’s going to be okay"
Her voice is like honey and heroin Sweet and sleepy My shoulders unknot My legs get weak My whole body relaxes But I don’t let go of the knife
The stones’ light fades suddenly The roo to see Candy behindKinski wrap the stones in silk and put thera’s eyelids and takes her pulse like a regular doctor
"She’s going to need to rest awhile before she can be moved Candy, can you stay with her? I want to speak to this youngrooarettes? I’m out," he says
I hold out the pack for hiht it for hihts
"So, you’re Eugene’s fair-haired boy"
"And you’re his Florence Nightingale Nice light show back there"
"It gets the job done"
"Nice office, too Did you get that stuff at one garage sale or did you shop around?"
"Eugene said you had a mouth on you"
"Look, thanks for what you did back there, but what do you want? I’ to see a hospital or a clinic and I walk into a peepshow booth full of stuff that fell off a garbage truck"
He chuckles "Yeah, so too far"
"Is Allegra going to be all right?"
"She’ll be fine Her head’s probably going to hurt for a day or two It’s not the injury, it’s just so that happens to civilians when you blast their bones back together like that"
"It’s ene said there were so for you Guess they found her instead"
"I’ to blast their bones back together"
"You take care of that girl in there first Youcare of Throw a sheltering spell on her Get Eugene to give her some protection charms"
"I should have done that when I first moved into the store"
"You fucked up So fix it Here"
He pulls a pencil-size piece of lead from his side pocket and puts it in my hand
"Now you don’t have any excuse You can draw the circle and do any spell you want"
"I haven’t done that kind of ic have you been doing?"
"Killing things,spell later Maybe having the lead in your hand will trigger some muscle memory and it’ll come back to you If you can’t h it"
"Okay"
"You should call me anyway Let me take those bullets out of you Five, isn’t it? Maybe they won’t kill you, but they can still cause an infection"
"If they do, you can just fix lass"
"I’ve never even heard of glass like that"
"That doesn’t surprise me Those are some of the rarest objects in existence I don’t suppose you’d let ht?"
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