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"Quentin," I said aloud for no one’s benefit but ned "How are you?"

Fortunately, as the grie ever spoken on Earth That included the vast and beautiful array of signed languages

A shy s and I threwHe buried his face in the crook of o, he drew in his shoulders So?" I asked in alar e is different now"

My chest htened He had been possessed by a de me and ended up here in Albuquerque as a result Artemis killed the demon that had possessed him, and Quentin basically woke up out of a catatonic state in a strange place with no family and no friends But later I found out he had no fao back to in DC, either, so I asked if he wanted to stay here While he lived at the School for the Deaf in Santa Fe on the weekdays, we decided he’d spend his weekends at the convent with the sisters for now, at least until someone found them out and told the sisters they couldn’t have a sixteen-year-old boy living at a convent full of nuns But the Mother Superior had fallen a little in love with hi all kinds of rules to have him there

Still, he’d been possessed As in a demon had taken up residence inside his body and kicked him out for a while I didn’t kno much of that time he would remember How much it would affect him

The reason the demon had possessed him in the first place, the reason they had possessed anyone, was because he could see into the supernatural world Just barely Just enough to ht be standing, but those who could do that could also see ht In other words, they could pick me out of a lineup They could lead the demons to me Reyes’s dad wanted me, the portal into heaven, and he apparently wanted h to ruin the lives of other people Some who had been possessed had died as a result

"Why don’t you come inside?"

I opened o in, then stopped midstride He surveyed my apartment, then took a wary step back

Surprised, I asked, "Can you see theraydirectly at theuarded, his stance alns sharp, frustrated "Not like I did before I see dead people everywhere" He looked at er "Did you know the school in Santa Fe was built right by a cehed aloud I did know that

"So you can see them now? Not just their essence?"

He wrapped his ar to take his eyes off the wo I had to admit, that had taken me by surprise, too

I took a hand and put it on his face to gently bring hi dead people walking around would put anyone on edge While I had been born with the ability, I did try to see it from another’s point of view and I could understand how that fact would put a crimp in one’s outlook

His eyes watered and his o in here?" I pointed behind hi hter, Amber, was home Even then, I didn’t normally knock, but I had couard She was a twelve-year-old girl She was probably prancing about to the latest pop song in her underwear Or maybe that was just me