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"And I thought the other demon was a jerk" Jordan eyed Roth with distaste "Color lad I followed you? What are you talking about?"

"He said you’d follow ht where I said I’d bring you" He turned around in a slow circle "Okay, she’s here I did what you asked Let’s get on with it"

I suddenly realized where ere It was a grocery store--or at least, it used to be It had closed down, the sign broken, the parking lot a large expanse of concrete and dark emptiness

I’d seen this place before--it was inon? Who wanted you to bringshadow as the figure approached fro the street were broken or flickering

"Beautiful star," Seth said, a slad"

Part ofit was only him The other part didn’t relax at all Just the opposite Especially after hi role inhere? You know Roth?"

He raised an eyebrow and glanced at the demon "It’s a very recent developel His clothes were dusty and torn, just like usual His beard seeht we’d been at Ae rown even darker and larger They also trailed up his throat now

"U her nose

"This--this is Seth," I said "He’s a fallen angel who’s been in Trinity a long time Seth, this is Jordan"

"Charmed," Jordan said as insincerely as possible She eyed Seth as if he was so she’d found stuck to the bottoet back toshower"

"Seth, what’s going on?" I asked "You never stick around very long to answer my questions, but I have a lot of the me to you? What do you need to tell ht help us?"

"Help," he lad to see you’re better now All fixed All i had started insideworse than it seeure out what it was?

Probably because of the one thing I’d always valued most about myself--my ability to be a realist Even now that I knew that there were strange andall the time all around us, I refused to totally accept it I needed proof Needed evidence to support the data