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He started to walk out, but I put my arm across the doorway to block hirily

"You’re wrong," I said, matter-of-fact "You, Mr Farrow, are far from perfect"

I dropped my arm and turned from him Partly because I needed a shower really bad and partly because there was a grain – just a grain – of truth to what he’d said

16

Never underestimate the power of termites

-- BUMPER STICKER

I showered and then made a cup of Satan’s blood as Osh took his turn I was exhausted, but the sun was in full swing, and I had things to do Cookie came over and made herself a cup, too

"Every inch ofto fall off at any

"No, you’re not He busted you, didn’t he?" she said, taking one look at

"Yes He followed us out there"

"Seriously?" she asked, sitting on Osh’s bed "And he didn’t help?"

"Right? But that’s not all He said I’asped "He didn’t"

"He did"

"Well, we all have to be horrible at so, sweetheart Takevacuu that tovacuum cleaners And you have a house to dispossess Chop, chop"

After I got dressed, I searched Reyes’s apartment for him, but to no avail I stepped back intohis top hat like he was going places

He stood "Rey’aziel had to go check on things at the bar He askedwas quick and brutal I fought to suppress it "Okay," I said, wondering if Osh was like Reyes andto the Aether In absolute silence Maybe he could feel eht thirty and found the house with relative ease about tenlike the real Amityville house And it certainly didn’t look possessed

Father Glenn stood out front, waiting for us

"Where’s the family?" I asked as I climbed out of Misery

"Work Kids are at school" He shook my hand and nodded to Osh, who stood close behind me

"It looks so normal," I said, and the father chuckled

"That’s what I said It see you"

"Wonderful Shall we?" I asked Osh I’d of course packed Zeus, but if there was a real deht, or low, as I liked to call it I’d done it before

Osh nodded and followed me to the door