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“Do you, now? Too little, too late, young princeling”

Quill flinched Princeling There was that word again Why did the witches call hih with the weight of the sealing circle I gasped with realization, with bleak understanding Was Quilliam a nephilim, too?

And then it happened The charred, undying remains of Leonora decomposed within seconds into a pile of red and black slime, her skeleton nowhere to be found within the ruination of her disintegrated corpse Monica screamed as she threw her head back – and back, and farther back, until her neck snapped, lolling horribly off her shoulder But her screa never stopped, even when her bodyin an oven The terrible sound of her wailing only ended when her lips fell away into sludge, joining the rest of her body in a pile on the floor

This shit only ever happened with deed as the revolting s meat filled the air But I couldn’t look away, even when the twin puddled purees of the Rodriguez witches’ reround like a whirlpool, their ing ser the stench of rotten flesh, but soant, like flowers, like the inside of a perfumery

I looked on with aching bones and body as the storher into a slowly thickening spike, rising finally to the height and shape of soan to pulse and bloo blood, as alabaster skin stitched its way over newly made muscle

The creature that stood before us was a faht Its hair was styled into a severe, black coif, its body clad in a red suit so sharp that it could have been cut froers, and the characteristic green of its eyes glilee

“You,” Quill murmured

“Indeed,” the creature said, its bare feet settling in a pool of liquid gold

“Then where are the Rodriguez witches?” Florian asked, sta

The creature’s laughter rang as devilishperished, and the Prince of Greed has been wearing their skin for sport There are no witches here Only Mammon”

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I knew it I fucking knew Ma to track my ass down to look for the sword that I’d lost What was it called again Duskfang? Damn it Damn it all to hell

Green eyes like venohter “Mason Albrecht It has been such a long time since Mammon has seen you”

I fought to archmy body and spirit to the floor “Can it, Mammon I don’t have your sword any to have to deal with that Besides, we never took it Belphegor tricked us He stole it from you”

Ma, always opting for the easy way out Look what trouble he has caused you Your relationship with him has not been a productive one, surely you must confess Such a liability And now you oo princes a debt”