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"Sorowl ru up for now, he said, "You need to fix this"

Michael adain "Clean up your own mess"

"For old time’s sake," Reyes said

In an instant the world was back where it belonged The s stood fully intact The coffee cups rested on their respective tables People sat talking and laughing as though their cook hadn’t just sealed a blood pact with an archangel to cast gods out of their world

I glanced around for Reyes, then looked through the pass-outHe was behind the grill, cooking, as if nothing had happened My ?

When Reyes glanced atup to the spice rack, I knew that it had all been real A huge gash ran the length of his ar I inched backwards to the front doors as what I’d done cary and risked the lives of my best friends? I was some sort of time bomb that would eventually collapse the universe? God – the God – wanted me dead? What kind of ed my emotions Saw the fear in my eyes Just as he started afterbut running Nothing but getting away froed around s I shook out of it and fought to stay in the tangible world, where it had just started to snow

I kept running, h they had an unliot half a block and al Michael wanted dead The one God wanted off His planet

Slowing to a stop, I fell toin the air, and my jeans et froain I looked down at my arms At an to peel it off my muscle I let out a quick scream and scrambled back I forced ain, the snow and the freezing wind that I’d co dive-bombed me, and I couldn’t tell froain, and I huddled on the ground Was it a bird? A spiritual being?

I squinted and focused on the sparrow trying to protect its nest I seee between torlds, unable to get a foothold in either

I felt a hand on my shoulder and flinched

"Janey," a ?"

Ian It was Ian

"I need to go home," I said, near panic

He stood and looked around "How did you get up here?"

"Where?" When I took in s, I realized ere on top of a et back to town I need to get ho, I asked, "Can you take ?" I asked hiot off Hold on"

He went to his trunk, rued around, and came back with a bottle of water

"You’re dehydrated"

We started down the steep and curving roads, over the Hudson and toward Sleepy Hollow

"What were you doing up there?" he asked rip on the worlds around me, more able to keep one on one side and the other on the other I just needed sleep The edges of hway, I was out

I awoke to cabinet doors banging and a cup breaking in my kitchen, but I was in my eot there

"You don’t have a drop of alcohol," Ian said as he stormed into the ?" I put my hands on either side ofOr at least I tried to They flopped past my face and fell to my lap I had zero muscle control