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I couldn’t keep it up

Not when I had to talk so every week or so Of course, those cases landed in star, anted to punish h, there were days when I wondered whether he was really trying to shoas boss because I’d refused to break up with GC and Pazuzu, or there was so me because I existed As simple as that

Either way, I couldn’t keep cutting h, especially after a particularly horrible day Tats The idea came to me out of the blue, a

nd it stuck The first one was under my breasts I’d read that was one of the ht for it An intricate sun andout of it and curving up to hug the underside of eoht, because I liked foxes My sto out of ideas What to get, what to get? Corri on my left shoulder blade That should keep me satisfied for a while

She’d risked being sent to the Blank for another hen she’d snuck Paz and GC into , and even then, Crassus the Fay followed star had given him one of those stupid teleportation pins He wasand ripped shadow I eventually got used to hiht, that I vowed not to try again The su to lose my mind if I didn’t fuck for three weeks

The only good thing that ca to reap in ht me how to teleport ondevice attached to my cloak anymore I was ahead of everyone at the Acadee I hated that I had to reap all summer I hated that I had to lookof life And I hated that I had to turn ood in the world, that nature was following its course and I was just a pawn on this great chess board called life Life and death Life hite, death was black White moved first, but that didn’t mean much, did it?

“Done”

Gloria’s voice startled oddess with four arms and skin as blue as the sky She was Hindu, and her name wasn’t Gloria, but that hat she liked to be called In the supernatural world, one’s origin, na to be proud of Every time she stepped out of her tattoo shop, people insisted on calling her by her real name, which only o, I wouldn’t have understood her To be powerful and hide it? To have an exotic nae it? To be special and wish to be norot it Now I knew And that hy I called Gloria by the name she’d chosen for herself

“Thanks Till next time”

She smiled “What will it be next time?”