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The de down over herto hurt you"

But his words did no good Who wouldn’t be terrified of an invisible being grabbing them? When the door was shut, he materialized and put the wharaph test

"Are you alone in the house?"

"Yes I live by lassy and unfocused

"Has anyone been by to question you yet?"

"Only you"

Good "Did you see anyone next door at any point today?"

"A deliverymade me stay inside I looked out theand there he was He scared o out"

Perfect Cain couldn’t read o directly into her raph of The Cycler If that was the delivery man’s true identity They could ask Taed his look over the years What the woman had seen would be most accurate

His eyes fixed on the old woman’s "You will sleep until I come for you You will not wake up otherwise, no matter what happens"

The woht her before she hit the floor He took her back to her roo back to the crime scene

"Cain? Is that you?" Luc called from downstairs

"Yeah You won’t believe my luck I found a possible witness" As he spoke he moved toward his brother’s voice

A door popped open with stairs leading down to the basement Luc’s eyes hen they met his "I hit the mother lode"

Cain followed his brother downstairs It wasn’t an exaggeration The baseical accoutrements of all sorts and an impressive array of books, some of them clearly from other dimensions A few looked like some Cain had in the libraries of his own diot down here, it was just a musty old basement, but then this all appeared Who do you think put up the glalamour done by the deceased would have dropped as soon as she’d died" Glaood y for the occupant of the home "Why would Jack bother if he wants to reveal the truth to the world?"

Luc’s eyes lit with excite two different conversations He left this clue for us Maybe not us specifically, but soroup I’d put money on it"

In the center of the room, on a weathered wooden table, was a rolled out scroll of parchic book at the top and bottom of the scroll held it open and flat It was a list of the h each name and a date beside it The names were listed in the order they’d been killed, with the newest addition at the bottom: a woman named Naomi

Underneath Nao cyclers besides Jack The last name on the list was Tamar Little hearts had been drawn beside Tam’s narowled Why were hearts beside Ta in the kitchen--the kind that zips," he ordered

While Luc was gone, Cain took in the rest of the baseators be by to find this? He couldn’t iine how someone wouldn’t stumble upon it eventually The basement had to be cleared out, especially the s looked like your average occult-shop fare Though, with the possible outing of the preternatural world, a complete absence of occult objects would be safer When Luc returned, Cain carefully rolled up the scroll and sealed it in the bag Then the two demons dematerialized, slipped out the back of the house, and woke the old lady

"You’re a very nice looking young gentle over Cain’s cheek when he woke her "I bet you have a lot of lady friends"

The demon chuckled "Ma’am, you don’t know the half of it"

Chapter Four

When they got back to the deht to Anthony so he can get a picture of who she saw I’ll be there soon" He’d been in too many time zones today, but he was sure sunset would arrive soon in Cary Town Either way, Luc could hold her at the penthouse until the va rose

Luc led the old woman away, and Cain stopped off in his tent and wrote down the crime scene address When he returned, about fifty de ti this ether had been a near miracle, courtesy of Daria

He handed the paper to the succubus "Go to this address and o in invisible We don’t need any witnesses The victim’s basehly sensitive Clear out the base it all to erous for the hue stick or jar of salt left behind If any humans discover it, wipe their memories and relocate them, but don’t kill We don’t need more attention"

"Whatever you say, boss" She turned to the assembled demons "Let’s move out" The others followed her to the dimensional portal

Cainclutched in his hand, careful not to dae the parchuard anyway

"Where are they?" he snarled at Jackson as he fought with the tent flap to get out

"Anna went to Cary Town for the low come to his eyes as the fire rose up in theuard does? Nobody goes in or out without my say-so" He had half ahimself to do it Jackson was loyal It wasn’t like him to defy orders Cain took a deep breath and closed his eyes, willing the glow to go out of the I want to do is cross you, but she’s too strong We can’t control her She threatened us with energy balls and curses I could have rounded upher, and you said not to We figured it was better to let her wander and burn off soet out of the dimension"

Cain looked to the other demon, who only nodded to confirm the story "If she comes back before I find her, tell her to stay put I need her for so at full de up eround in the tiotten a demon to help her? Because she wasn’t in his dimension If she was out, The Cycler would find her and they were all fucked