


I skidded into the studio to find the man sitting on the sofa, arms folded across his chest. Even as a child, I’d been impulsive, if introverted.

He’d always been on my back to think things through, to find all the facts I could before acting. Father was going to be so pissed at us, and me especially. “Oh shit!” Since I’d been the one to coldcock him, I raced on ahead to explain. The chief advisor of the Court and Crown was our father, and so the man tied up in the shed was. “We managed to hogtie the assistant to the chief advisor of the Court and Crown. “Was sent here from Y’Elestrial, all right, but from Queen Tanaquar,” Camille said, stalking over to glare at me. “And if the demon was the threat that broke our wards, then that man-” There was a weird sense of connection there.” She rubbed her temples. I think it has some sort of homing tail on me. “I could feel it trying to get inside my head. the demon that attacked me in the club,” she said when she was able to speak. Delilah moaned, and we helped her up, but she was having trouble standing. I didn’t even want to think about what it might have done if I’d been standing out in the open. “It’s gone,” Rozurial said, stepping out of whatever twilight zone he’d been in and offering me his hand.įor once, I accepted, wearily struggling to my feet.
