I tucked the little creature back into the sling I’d borrowed from the dorm’s front desk. “So if we blind David, we’ve partly blinded the shadow?” I asked her as I pulled my black kitten off its climb up my brown dragonskin jacket. I slid down to the weed-ridden pavement, and Charlie followed. Someone had long ago smashed most of the plastic menus at the individual order stations. Pal settled gently in the shade of the Sonic’s covered parking area. I scanned the ground beneath us at the intersection beside the entrance to the golf course, there was an abandoned Sonic drive-in. “It can see people who are in the water with it, but if it’s hunting on land it needs David’s eyes and ears,” she said. She pointed toward a thicket of oaks beyond the sun-browned remains of a municipal golf course.
“The water lily garden is back behind those trees,” Charlie said from her seat behind me, a little too loudly in my ear. for a quick breakfast, and then we gathered our gear and weapons and the black kittens and flew out toward the Civic League Park near the center of town. But why? How much of what she’d told Henry was actually true? It was impossible to tell.Īfter a few hours of sleep, Pal and I met Charlie at the cafeteria at 6 A.M. Then I reconsidered: perhaps she had stopped soul harvesting for a time, but returned to it with a vengeance a year ago. Obviously she hadn’t given up on taking souls, and twisting people into committing spiritual suicide wasn’t any better than murder in my book. And in the decade since, she’d managed to put herself on the road to becoming a brand-new death goddess. I hadn’t thought a demon could become a devil by winning the soul of one of its unwilling creators, but clearly Miko had neatly exploited that particular supernatural loophole. At least now I knew what we were dealing with.
So we decided to get up early and head out at dawn to try to cut off Miko’s meat puppet supply.īut as Pal snoozed on the other bed, I lay awake, thinking of everything I’d seen that day. My journey into Henry’s memories left me exhausted and shaky, and none of us thought that trying to stage an attack on either David or Miko after dark would be a good idea.
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