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A soul Bishop had a soul

And I’d kissed hier for hi

"Did you know already?" I asked, my voice barely audible

Connor looked at me "Yes"

"How?"

"It’s why I was sent here" He turned to study Bishop "So when you left Somebody screwed up They made you fall For real"

Bishop stared at him, his brow furrowed "How could that happen?"

Connor’s expression tensed "There are those ant you to fail, for this atekeeper who sent you was one of the old guard--the very old guard A zealot who thought the only answer to purge the human world of this new infection would be to destroy the city all Sodom-and-Goot here, I expected you to be in bad shape, but you weren’t So I figuredA soul usually -time"

Bishop just stared at Connor with shock as this sank in

Zach’s expression was tense "The rest of us were protected But if nobody found us…we’d still be wandering the streets with no idea ere"

"Yeah," Kraven agreed, eyeing irl, ould have wandered the city forever"

"She’s a dah proof for you? She needs to die"

"Back off," Bishop growled at him "She didn’t know this would happen"

"She found us and that gives her a pass," Kraven said "This time, anyway"

Roth sank back into the shadows I was surprised they weren’t all ganging up on me at this point I’d just proven that I was every bit as horrible as they thought I was

I wanted to go to Bishop, to touch hiht now "This--gatekeeper who did this to him Where is he now?"

"Punished I hope he sees the irony when he’s cast out of Heaven for his criroup "There was no way to kno badly Bishop was affected by this The barrier blocks nearly all attempts to monitor the situation So they sent me to help"