Page 29 (1/2)

"If I hurt your feelings, get God down here so I can tell Him to His face"

"Maybe you are worse than Kinski"

"You’re theI’ve ever met Even the worst Hellion has a purpose What’s yours? You can’t keep a treaty froht destroy the world You don’t even go after Mason Why is that?"

"Don’t you dare interrogatefor Mason forhi with the guyon"

"We are agents of Heaven and do its bidding"

"And while you do, you let Parker roa he’ll lead you back to the big boy How many people has Parker killed in the last eleven years and you didn’t do anything about it?"

"You’re suddenly so concerned about death? People die around you every day and you barely seeel Fuck you and all God’s little prison bitches He slips you soarettes and a con job smile and you run off to do his dirty work for hi to you here"

I can’t read an angel the way I can a huhtly, sliding one foot back a few ht settle on her back leg

"God can still save you, Abo you are, but through me he can save you from perdition"

"If it’s all the sao to Hell"

"So be it"

Aelitaback yesterday Shesword incredibly fast and shoots forward like a bullet Thing is, I’m pretty fast, too Especially when I knohat an opponent is going to do Before she charges me, I already have the na’at out, extended, and I’ her When she blasts forward at me, she also impales herself on one side of the na’at, like she’s run onto the cutting edge of a chain saw

Aelita freezes for a second, stunned to find her angelic body sliced through That gives ht turn so that the barbs lock into her She lets out a ates Buildings shudder and car alaro of the na’at to covers her sword at my head and tries to move forward, but she’s stuck on the na’at I push a stud in the handle and step back, locking her in place while extending the na’at so her sword can’t reach es at me, but each tie deeper into her body She stopspale After a few minutes, her sword dims and flickers out She refuses to fall She won’t submit to an Abomination If I didn’t hate her so much already, I’d probably like her

Then she cru and shut her down When she’s flat on her back, I turn the na’at to release the barbs, pull it fro it back inside o over to have a look at her Her eyes are open, and even though she’s looking up, I know she’s not looking at the sky She’s looking a lot farther away than that I wonder what she sees

"You’ll suffer for this, Abo and He sees you"

"Does He see you? I have an idea Call God to co" I look down again and shrug "I guess you’re expendable, too"

"I hate you o The truth You hate ood, doesn’t it? Feels huel can die the way humans do I wonder what happens to their bodies Does their spirit go back to Heaven or Hell or do they just evaporate?

I kneel by Aelita’s head She looks up atabout it Remember when I asked you why God left ht I here I should be? Maybe He thought I should be here today To face you down in this alley Maybe He wants et past you first It’s sohtens out her arhter to the end Maybe I do like her a little after all No I don’t

I don’t really believe that angels can die the e do And God wouldn’t let an io so easily Wells and his Golden Vigil buddies and half of Hoht now Tienerally, not be here

THERE’S ONE GOOD way to always get what you want from so Pay in advance and pay toooff a coat covered in blood and plaster dust, it’s no ti counter gives lasses I slip her one of Muninn’s hundred-dollar bills, and just like that, all is forgiven The coat will be ready later tonight Civilians really need to reic that anyone can do

Where did all the Kissi go? The streets were lousy with theone as a Friday blockbuster with a bad weekend gross

What the hell is wrong with LA? Full of icians, alcheil, and federally funded angels, and no one’s been able to touch Mason? That doesn’t make any sense It stinks of protection It smells like a conspiracy, but I don’t believe in conspiracies Guys will say anything to get laid If so a coed hoas the guy on the Grassy Knoll, he’d do it and we’d all know about it by now But if there’s no conspiracy, what does that mean? Maybe there’s an asshole A-list that no one told ift bag from Neiman Marcus and a free pass on murder and apocalyptic power plays

Is Mason bulletproof because he’s tight with the Kissi? Is everyone really that afraid? What did he have to do to cozy up to that celestial vermin anyway? What did he have to steal? Who did he have to kill? What Lovecraftian sewer slug did he have to blow to get up close and personal with God’s bastard kids?

I don’t believe in conspiracies, but I do believe in bullshit and I believe I’ht now