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When the flames cleared and my vision returned, all that reainst the wall Quilliaone
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After a couple of days spenton plain frozen cheese pizzas, Florian and I finally regained enough strength to peel ourselves off our beds for more than thirty minutes Or my couch, in Florian’s case
The fight against Mammon and Quill – that traitorous rat bastard – had taken a hell of a lot out of both me and Florian, physically and spiritually And fine, so Belphegor had nothing to do with the de to believe that hebut ill
Yet our proble The rent was due real soon, but we could barely work,down the days until our landlord busted our door open and kicked us out
“Hey Florian Florian” I was hoping hroorunt told“Do you think – if we find a spot somewhere in the woods – do you think you could row one out of the ground”
After about half a minute, his response came “I dunno And then what? We just live our lives in the forest?”
“Yeah, dude Two Tarzans, Tarzan-ing it up in the California wilds No rent to pay, ever We could live on what nature provides us Or, you know, you could grow fruit out of your bare hands or whatever it is you do”
He chuckled “Yeah? And you’d still have to get better at warding ic, keep away the crazies that want to kidnap your nephilim ass”
I shoved h Don’t remind me”
That hen the phone rang Dionysus I picked up, y “Hello?” into the receiver
“Well, hello yourself, Mason,” Dionysus purred “Tio to the hardware store Buy some nails while you’re at it Artemis has more work for you”
I stretched out alongevery impulse to leave its creaky, squeaky coet paid for our work, exactly?”
“We’re still working that out,” Dionysus said stiltedly “Arte to modern currency Oh, I say difficulty, but really, I should have siold coins We need to get those pawned first, perhaps in the Black Market That will take some time You do understand, don’t you?”
I sighed, staring up at the ceiling Entities, aht? “Whatever, man We’ll do it Even if we have to live out in the forest, we’ll still need cash to buy toilet paper”