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Beezle fluttered up next to ht"

"Okay," I said, a little surprised I’d thought that after my near-death experience he’d want to stay close to me

He flew out the front ithout another word, and I walked slowly down the hall to my own room I shut the door in deference to Samiel and sat on my bed

In the past week I’d lost Gabriel, lost Beezle, survived two attacks by Samiel, discovered the bodies of three wolves, found Beezle and Gabriel, killed a giant spider and a leviathan, lost n in Lucifer’s kingdom, made a new enemy in Amarantha, been assaulted by my fiancé, lost part of my left hand, taken on the new responsibility of Samiel and defied all expectation and survived the horrors of the Maze

I was tired

I was also alone, and I hadn’t expected to be I curled up on my bed in my bloodied and torn clothes and waited for the tears to co

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I MUST HAVE SLEPT FOR A WHILE, BECAUSE THE NEXT thing I knewa thousand ital clock on my bedside table showed

I wondered if a nightmare had wokenthe events of the Maze around with htotten up to use the bathrooistered the sound unconsciously I wasn’t used to another living being besides Beezle in the house

I listened for a ain but now that I ake e of the bed Lucifer’s sinked atin the corner ofit there, or in fact carrying it into the house at all

A second later I saw a strange burst of green light outside I stood up and went to theThe light was co from the alley behind le that I stood at, but it flashed once, twice, three tiht that occurred naturally

I didn’t relish the prospect of yet another paranor faerie adventure, but I needed to see as going on in the alley A lot of norhborhood and as far as I kneas the only person equipped to deal with supernatural weirdness