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"Now i the detonator for a hundred trillion of the I’m the child in this scenario and I have a detonator of some kind?"

"You are the detonator, Elle-Ryn, and the nuclear devices, all one hundred trillion of them, are inside you"

I looked down atdesperately to understand

"Your inability to coe part of the proble like that even possible?"

"And you provea step closer The glass treet it I’ like that even possible?"

"It shouldn’t have been," he acquiesced "You should not have come into your powers before your corporeal form expired You learned your name too soon, and as such, absorbed your powers too soon As you can see, it was too ulate Now you can’t reer You just tried to kill every person in here with a single thought"

"No" I stepped back until I hit the counter "That wasn’t what I was doing" I glanced around the café At Dixie and Mr P and Cookie "I would never hurt thelass that hung like sparkling crystal around us "And this was just the barest hint of a thought One infinitesirain of sand in your Sahara Can you iht?"

Reyes was only a few feet away now, slowly advancing, gaining ground

"So you’ve come to kill her?" he asked Michael

The air pushed out of s as if I’d been punched

"It cannot be helped"

"I’ll make you a deal," he said "Get off this plane now, and I’ll let you live"

But eren’t on a plane I glanced around just to make sure Nope No plane

"I have been sent, Rey’aziel"

"Then you have been sent to your death"

"I would’ve thought after the nick I gave you last time --"

"Funny Most of the blood on els really do that? "We could be at this all day"

"What does He want, exactly?"

"The Val-Eeth to do her job It is why He allowed her onto this plane in the first place To stop the fallen one"

Reyes tilted his head "And here I thought He allowed it so she could be the portal His portal"

He lifted a shoulder "That, too But, as it were, there is a loophole in the original agree two birds with one stone"