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Eidolon tapped his fingers on his desk, and just as Shade was about to break his fingers, E froze,Has that always been the case?"

"Not that I know of"

Shade frowned "What are you getting at?"

"Roag’s dungeon Runa ripped off the wing of a fallen angel I wondered why Roag would have a fallen angel working for hiel would serve a de fro, drawn out breath

Reaver stilled "What about it?"

"Roag stole it from my collection when he took the

"You were in possession of Eth’s Eye?"

"Yes," E said, "but it was iels can use it for the purposes of scrying If Byzamoth had it, he could have used it to locate the amulet" Reaver cursed "Which explains why I felt her cloak shatter--a side effect of being discovered"

"We need to involve The Aegis," Reaver repeated, like a daree" Eidolon stood and walked around his desk "Tayla and Kynan are going to have to tell the Sigil what’s going on All of it This is too big for us alone And they’re trained to hunt down beings like fallen angels" He turned to Reaver "When will he try to open the gate?"

"The second dawn after the Sentinel’s blood is shed If he doesn’t use the blood then, he’ll have otten Serena’s char Now he’s at thehim"

"Where will Byzamoth take the amulet and the blood?" Eidolon asked

"Jerusaleet the blood first Where is Wraith?"

"Egypt"

"Get him home," Reaver said "We can protect him in the hospital"

"That’ll work" Eidolon didn’t sound too confident, though, probably because getting Wraith to sit still and do nothing would be like trying to chain a phantois cells within striking distance of Jerusaleet them ready for a battle"

Shade cursed De for centuries that the end was near, and finally, it seeht

Twenty-three

Serena dreaded this call, but now that she had a signal she had to make it

"Serena?" Val sounded as worried as she’d ever heard hi’s fine" If fine included losing her necklace, her virginity, and her charm in a matter of hours

"Thank God" She heard the squeak of leather, knew he’d just sank into a chair "Where are you?"

"The train will be pulling into Alexandria in fifteenho "Not exactly There’s a probleain "What?" She didn’t answer, and his voice dropped to a low, dangerous whisper She’d seen hi she never wanted to experience again "What happened?"

"It’s Byzamoth"

"The demon?"

She sed dryly "He’s , and tell ue-with-me-or-else voice, and she knew better than to push She started at the beginning and ended with, "He killed the Regent And… and he attacked et the necklace?"

"Yes"

"And the charone, too"

His harsh curse was followed by a long, ragged breath When he spoke, his words were broken, distorted "I should have known There have been de joined the frantic click of his fingers on co care of h! Where was he when Byzas could have turned out a lot worse than they did"

Val et off the train, head straight to an address I’et in Wait until I arrive"

"Will do Where are you?"