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“So,” Belphegor gruh his phone “What do you want?”

I wasn’t sure who he was addressing until Scri my body into the array of facial and physical expressions that generally worked best when sucking up to entities Of course, body language only ever works when the other person is looking at you Belphegor was being rude as hell, and wouldn’t even give lance

“We had a bargain,” I said “Reuas Island the other day?”

Still staring into his phone, Belphegor scoffed “I mean, I remember when you interrupted ain”

I twiddledsteadily more impatient and frustrated by the second It didn’t help that this body Belphegor earing had perfected the carefree slouch of an ier It also had an eminently punchable face

To my surprise, Mason stepped in, his face and demeanor similarly poised in a facsie “We asked to borroord, Belphegor,” he said, firmly, but politely “And the deal was that I would owe you a favor Me The nephilim”

Belphegor’s thumb froze mid-swipe as his eyes sloiveled up to meet Mason’s His lips broke into a lazy s, wasn’t it? Sure Why didn’t you say so?”

Mason looked over his shoulder atht see flying between two people in a sitco?”

Weed, it turned out, because the wind shifted just then, and I caught a whiff of the scent clinging to Belphegor’s body I was totally right

“That should be on h his phone “I could have sworn I checked that thing off days ago”

I bit hard on the inside of o? And we had to chase you down for this?”

Belphegor said nothing, but he didn’t have to The way his eyes flitted towards me with thick displeasure said plenty I backpedaled withoutin the uneven earth of the hilltop

“I don’t exactly have access to two-day delivery, Dustin Graves,” Belphegor said, his voice dripping with derision “Maybe you’ve forgotten, being so far reround, but the acquisition of ical artifacts takes time, and effort”

“Acquisition?” I said I turned to Asher and Gil, just to clarify “Refresh or couldn’t hear “When ent to meet the prince of sloth in the Philippines, wasn’t there talk about just retrieving the sword?”

Gil’s eyes darkened as he chewed over the ht, at least It sounded like she – like he was going to just pop into his apartment and take it out of some dusty closet”