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"You know about that?" I asked

"I know about everything Lucifer supposedly sent Reyes to get you, to take you back to hell with hied his mind and decided to stay on this plane to be with you? To be with the very being he was sent to bring back? Why would he wait an eternity for you, risk sohis only escape route onto this plane, to then turn around and send his ared None of it had ever e? My plans often went awry Much like hts Hold the phones Maybe Satan had ADD, too It would explain a lot

"Think about it," Garrett continued

I was How could I not?

"They’ve been trying to kill both of you since you were born Earl Walker was supposed to kill you, Reyes, but he became obsessed instead Some pedophile was supposed to kill you, Charles, but Reyes saved you Again and again A bond, an otherworldly connection, was for It’s kept both of you alive If that connection is ever severed, you’ll each be much more vulnerable And I think that’s what they wanted To sever that connection To keep you apart until one of you could be killed But they’ve failed tiht in at least one aspect: Reyes and I were supposed to grow up together, but he was kidnapped and everything that he’d planned went up in flames

"Why else would he send hundreds of thousands of his troops to their deaths just to try to navigate the void of oblivion? God et out of hell There’s a void, like a ate That’s why he created Reyes He is a key, a h the void And he wanted torave"

I crossed my arms He had me on some points, but lost et a portal Any portal

Garrett scrutinized the notes, deep in thought "But then that pesky connection crept in It’s kept you alive decades longer than most reapers"

"Hey," I protested, suddenly offended "I’m not that old I’ht? Because uarding their asses"

Reyes had toldand then they do their duty for hundreds of years incorporeally

"But this still begs the question, ould he want you dead, Reyes? You? The only being in existence that could navigate the void? Because you’re going to destroy the world? That’s what’s been keeping hihts? He cares thatabout us We’re points in a ga field, but the only one keeping score is hiether in concentration as she absorbed Garrett’s story

"And he wants a portal to heaven?" he continued "Why? So he can get his ass handed to hiain? Why would he want back in there? What’s that old saying? It’s better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven? And he’s the ultimate ruler with hundreds of thousands, possibly s to serve hi ahold of the portal, akamyself with a sweep of my hand, "isn’t not his motivation, then what is?"

"Fear"

"Fear?"

"Think about it He created a son to do his dirty work, and like any pigheaded teenager, the son rebelled Refused to do his father’s bidding It was never about a war It was never about Lucifer getting back into heaven It’s about so that only he would fear"

I was sitting on the edge ofon my nails I totally should have made popcorn "Okay, so what? What’s he so scared of?"

Garrett pressed his htened "Wh-what? Why would he be afraid of me?"

"No idea, but I have to tell you, I’m more than a little i with it He’d lost it He’d gone over the edge of a waterfall and landed on a sharp, pointy boulder

Before I could give him my professional opinion of his aze "You weren’t sent to get her, to bring her back, were you?" When Reyes didn’t answer, he continued "You were sent to kill her, just in case all the eleainst a reaper fail Just in case she lived through all the evil beings on Earth ere attracted to her light, ere drawn to her essence You were insurance, sent to round before she had a chance to breathe" He leaned forward, spoke directly to Reyes "You were created to assassinate her She would still have been the reaper She just wouldn’t have had a life as a human So for some reason, it is Charley in human form that is a threat to him And you exist for one reason and one reason only To kill the only being in the universe as prophesied to bring Daddy down"

This was great I wiggled farther intotold a very cool bedti to do so," he said to oing to gain so to change the course of huainst the ruler of hell and put hi in his power to stop you"