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Horror Hotel, as Wraith called Shade’s house "Vampires, demons, and olves check in… and then theysorowl, and then they were gone As Con and Sin approached the Harrowgate, it flashed and a tank of a blood-bay stallion leaped out, scattering staff and patients Atop the horse sat a massive male in hard leather armor His hair was short, reddish brown, and his eyes were as black as Sin’s
"What the hell are you doing?" Eidolon shouted, but the big aze on Sin with such intensity that Con stiffened "Why is he looking at you like that?"
"I… ah…" She slid hilance "I sort of slept with him once"
Con took a deep breath and tried to rein in his desire to rip out the horse guy’s throat "Where’d you find him? EviLovecom?"
"Hey, that’s not funny I know people who use the deo still, watching and waiting, and what the hell was up with Sin and guys on horses anyway? "Well, who is he?"
"War"
Con stared at her "War Just… War What kind of name is that?" Nope, not jealous at all of uy
"Yeah, you know, the original War Second Horseue Everyone else in the ER scra down frouy was damned near seven feet tall
"Sin," he said in an impossibly deep voice He approached her, bent to kiss her cheek, and Con bristled
"Big horse," Con ground out "Cohtened, shot Con an amused smile--the fker had some seriously white teeth--and turned back to Sin "I need the objectarroas your brother?" Sin dug the gold piece out of her pocket "Is this it? This coin?" "Yes" He took it, and Eidolon sucked in a strangled breath as he put two and two together "A Seal Gods, that’s a Seal"
Con felt the blood drain from his face "A broken Seal" White horse Bow Holy shit "Conquest Your brother is Conquest"
"His real name is Reseph," War said, "but he’s also known as Pestilence in some interpretations of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" Eidolon’s voice was stunned, toneless "She of mixed blood who should not exist, carries with her the power to spread plague and pestilence When battle breaks, conquest is seal’d Isagreth 3:17, Daemonica"
War shifted, and his leather armor squeaked loudly in the otherwise silent ER "It’s as engraved on the back of this Seal" Slowly, Sin pulled her right arm out of her jacket and raised her sleeve to reveal the circular glyph that had split open so badly at Rivesta’s cabin The scar that ran through it was an exact replica of the broken edge of the Seal "I’m the reason it broke," Sin rasped
"Yes You are e call an agimortus, a catalyst of sorts Your actions put into motion an event that caused my brother’s Seal to break"
"Wait," Con said "So as he trying to kill her? He was there whento kill her," War said "No offense to you, Sin, but anted to prevent the Seal froious interpretations, we’re neither good nor evil until the Seals break"
"And then?"
"And then it’s time to bow before whatever God you believe in"
Sin’s dainty eyebrows slammed down in a frown "Why did Pest saveto kill me?"
"By then, the Seal had already broken At this point, your life or death isn’t important, but he did want you to have the coin" "Why?"
War rubbed his thue toto killunder Con’s pal, and his mouth turned up in a smile that probably made females fall all over hirowl for hi anywhere Not even for uy Asshole "What was the final straw that broke it?" Con asked, much more nicely than he’d have liked And that note of awe in his voice… seriously? Hu "It triggered when the disease juan to battle each other" He glanced at Eidolon "Yes, we’ve kept up on everything that’s happened"
"What can we do?" Eidolon asked "Pray" War mounted the horse "And prepare your staff for et a lot worse before they get better If they get better" With a jerk of the reins, he and the stallion disappeared into the Harrowgate
Everyone stood there for a moment, frozen and silent When the ambulance-bay doors slid open and Blaspheme and Vladlena rolled a patient in on a stretcher, everyone finally leaped into action Everyone but Con, who stared at Sin