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Oh, yeah, Garrett needed to be on medication "But ould I want to do all of this? And hoould I raise an aranization Will they expect to be fed?"

"I don’t kno you’re going to do it or what part you’ll actually play I was shown only bits and pieces, and with all the infor to separate fact froh it Thus all the research" He lifted the notes for me to see

"Where on Earth did you find all of this?"

"Like I said, I have interesting relatives eBay helped, too All I know is that grim reapers – by the way, they aren’t actually called that down there – are extres or the demons from the dimensions we know of They have souls and can exist in this realm either in human form or as spirit They are a completely different species They’re like butterflies in a world ofpointedly, "you are even more powerful than most of your kind You were born with the ability to draw energy fro around you, ani, for to the situation They called you a word froe that meant ‘malleable,’ ‘adaptive’ From what I could tell, you were very special even in your world And you were royalty of souys had quite the talk" Reyes had told h, and interesting enough Still, I couldn’t help but question his sources Maybe it was all a big con, but not the way Garrett thought Maybe Satan wanted Garrett to believe he was lying

"Like I said, it’s different there It’s like you internalize the contents of a thirty-five-volume encyclopedia in the span of a few seconds"

"I so could have used that in college"

"Do you reht?"

"Yes," I said, ignoring the pang of jealousy that rushed out of Reyes "The one you ripped out of my hand"

"Yeah, sorry about that"

He wasn’t He really wasn’t

"It was from a Dr von Holstein fro on some translations for me"

"Translations of what?" Cookie asked

"And how did you find him?"

"He’s published quite a bit I caes And translated from some very old docuain, a couple were on eBay Unfortunately, no one could read theuy can read ancient texts?"

"A hell of a lot better than I can And once I told hiather information and told me what to look for What really interested us were the works that were reportedly written by a Byzantine prophet named Cleosarius"

Cookie tsked "That’s an unfortunate name"

"Yeah, well, it’s probably really old," I told her "Though I knew a Cleo once His wife killed him with a meat cleaver"