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"Where are the others?"

"I don’t know," I said, and tried not to worry about Gabriel Surely he’d just been delayed at the crime scene with Baraqiel Antares’s henchmen were no ht think

JB leaned heavily on otiated the three wooden steps very slowly

"I don’t think we can get to the second floor like this," I said,The loss of blood and the shock of ht up with me I sat down on the top step and JB collapsed beside me We leaned on each other like two drunks, both of us panting from exertion

"You need an elevator," JB said

"She needs help from that useless devil, is what she needs," Beezle said, fluttering around my head anxiously "He could heal her in a trice if only he here he was supposed to be"

"You don’t think that Antares’s men really could have harmed him?" I asked

Beezle scoffed "Those two miscreants? Not a chance And remember, Baraqiel ith him"

"Baraqiel was injured," I pointed out

"And if it was so easy to handle Antares’s men, where are Gabriel and Baraqiel?" JB asked

Once worry was given free rein, I could conjure any number of scenarios in which Gabriel and Baraqiel could disappear They had been attacked by Saori who hated Azazel They had been attacked by soht of yet

Horrors that you cannot coart, and nore what came out of his mouth But there had been truth in his voice He knew so about what had happened in that alley He knew, and he was obviously planning to use that infor, JB was horribly burned, and I was bleeding out onaround andimprecations about Gabriel

"Beezle, why don’t you make yourself useful and find some Band-Aids?" I said

"And possibly some kind of burn cream," added JB

Beezle flew around the house to thethat was always open on the east side As he went, I was sure I heard hihnuts until I stop bleeding!" I shouted after hirabbed his side "It hurts to laugh"