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Belphegor snickered “For once, I agree with the angel Your ht you soh to protect you fro from”

“I guess you guys are right,” I said, sighing as I slipped into a chair at the table, paging through the notebook My eyes drifted across a particular design, and I cockedit I liftedit up to show Raziel and Belphegor “What about this one? Do you guys think that this’ll do the job?”

Belphegor’s eyes glazed over with a frightening il inshriek quite unlike anything I’d ever heard hiht, the two entities disappeared, banished frohtly better protected apartment

Florian stared at the spots where the deel previously stood, then looked at me “What the hell was that?”

I showed hin in my notebook “Carver’s variation on the Seal of Solo away infernals and celestials, if only temporarily I needed a break Wanted them out of my hair”

“Won’t they be even more pissed off when they come back?”

“See, ideally, I’ve just bought us enough time to find a way to keep them out permanently We’ll let Raziel in on a case by case basis – like a stray neighborhood cat – but I’eneral-purpose to keep the apartment wa

rded for a good little while”

Florian joined h lyphs that I pointed out as potentially useful But not fiveI checked out the naroan

“Ugh This sucks We can ward this place as thickly as we like, but that’s not going to stop all of the that there are other ways for the entities to bug us” I raised ”

Florian furrowed his forehead “Dionysus? Oh, shit He ot like ten jars of the stuff ready”

“Right, right,” I said, taking a deep breath to settle od of wine I picked up the call and put it on speaker, pasting the best smile I could muster on my face Quick tip I picked up from Dustin They can hear you smile over the phone “Dionysus,” I said boldly, but not too cheerfully “How can I help you? Florian says he’s still working on the wine”

“Oh, this isn’t about the wine,” Dionysus said, his voice high and happy, prettyto ask if the two of you would like to ood, honest e arms”

Florian and I exchanged careful glances, then nodded in agree”

“Excellent,” Dionysus trilled “Now Are you any good with construction work?”