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All right, sosense

“I took an oath,” Toland said shortly “A blood oath Pass your damn finals”

Xero inhaled sharply I shot hi look, and he shook his head at me

Ugh Fine

I wasn’t about to get answers right now, so I stood up and joined the guys As we all filed out, I glanced back and saw Toland fold his hands and lay his head down on the table

He looked like he was regretting his career choices

Chapter Four

“Blood oath?”

I turned to Xero as soon as Vesper led us out of the labyrinth and disappeared, probably to go help Toland sort through thesuddenly plopped into the underworld had caused

The fire demon shuddered “A blood oath is bad Even fallen in the underworld take a step back before taking a blood oath Blood ic is forbidden for almost everybody If he lets us move on to next year’s schoolithout our finals on file, he’s in for a world of hurt”

“I thought he was in charge around here though Who would punish him?”

Xero gave s have built-in fail-safes I don’t know exactly ould happen to hih that he would banish us in a heartbeat, even if we ed to save the day”

“Fuck” I gri’s so life and death around here You’d think the stress alone would o full monster”

Kai snorted “Who says it doesn’t?”

I thought about the way Toland had behaved during ation, and my sto in the air, in the very atmosphere here that destroyed humanity and fostered evil?