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Upon seeing me, the blonde, child-like demon charged headfirstâteeth gaping from her open mouth. Roger stepped in front of me, holding the book with the affixed talisman out before him. The child ran into it, and the talisman adorning the cover sparked. For a split second, she glowed red and amber before she turned to ash.
A particularly ugly demon with excessive stitches holding his sagging flesh in place grabbed a boy off his bicycle and opened its maw to tear into him.
I commanded, âStop. Burn.â
The demon instantly dropped the child and ignited in amber flames.
Chapter Twenty-six
The Devilâs Spawn
Realizing our power over them, the demons began fleeing from us. Some were getting in the cars, and others were belly crawling away like cockroaches.
âWe should stop them and send them all back to hell,â Stoney demanded.
âI have a better idea,â I said before raising my voice loud enough for all the remaining demons to hear. âAll demons within the sound of my voice must seek-out other demons and send them back to hell.â I smiled at my own cleverness. âNot even one of you is allowed to harm humans. Your targets are demonsâdemons only. Now, go far from here and begin your hunt.â
A crowd of residents from Blue Eye were gathering in the road and gawking at the cemetery. The demons walked by them as if they were unaware of their existence. A car passed. Not one demon lunged after it as before.
I looked over at Stoney. âThere, howâs that for tying up loose ends. This gang of devil spawn will take out untold hundreds of harmful demons before they get sent back to hell.â
Stoney huffed and stuffed his blades back in his satchel. âI still donât like it. Iâd rather send them all back to Hell on the Stoney express.â
An old man walked up to me and asked what the loud noise was all about. With everything that had happened and the cemetery in a wreck, I thought his question was unusual. I wondered what he was seeing. Surely it wasnât what I saw or he would run back to Blue Eye in terror. I took him by the arm and closed my eyes. Reaching out with my mind, I instantly got a vision from his point of view. To my surprise, he couldnât see the spirit world like we could. In his mind, the cemetery looked normal except for a burned tree near the praying hands monument. Demons were only people, normal people, leaving a funeral. They couldnât see the burned graves, and they thought the broken headstones were as they should be.
I answered, âLightning struck the tree during a funeral, scared everyone silly. But no one was hurt, and the rain put it out.â I gave him my best trust me eyes. âNothing to worry about.â
Mr. Darkâs voice reverberated in my mind, âAre you going to open his eyes and let him see whatâs actually there?â
âNo. Itâs best he thinks itâs just another normal day.â
âMakes you wonder what all was going on around you at any given point in time when you were blind to it.â
âWell, Iâm not blind now,â I sternly said.
âBy the way, I never doubted you. I knew you could do it all the time.â
I withdrew from the passerbyâs mind. âReally, Mr. Dark? You lie. You didnât know anything. Youâre the one who was always telling me to run and hide.â
âI knew more than you think.â
âWhat I think is that this is not over and you know it.â
âTrue, but weâve won the first battle.â
âWhatâs this we business? I didnât see you doing anything to help.â
âOkay, if you insist. You won your first battle.â
âNo. My first battle was in the Roundhouse talking to Kelly Carter. I discovered my gift too late to help him. If I knew then what Iâm capable of⊠I could have saved him.â
âYou donât know, or are you so self-absorbed in your guilt to see it? Remember what Flower said? âSome people donât want to be saved.â I think he was one of them.â
Only a few demons remained by the cemetery fence. They looked like lost sheep wandering back and forth. In their midst, the sheriff stood beaten, breathless, and confusedâstaring at me. For a moment I thought my gift had failed. He might charge the same way the demon child did. Then he turned toward his police cruiser and opened the door.
âStop him.â
âWhy should I?â I asked. âHe isnât posing a threat anymore. He lost his master and now he only has the purpose I gave him.â
âSpeak the words of commandment. Do it now.â
I yelled, âYou who claim to be Sheriff Briggs, stop and look at me.â
The demon stopped, took his hands off the car door, and stepped back. He stood there with his back to me; then slowly, he obeyed, glaring at me with resentful eyes.
âSeeâcool, right? Isnât there something you need to fix? I mean, Rose doesnât need a record, and this guy has falsely arrested her to disguise her kidnapping.â
âDemon,ââI concentrated on my voice and commandedââgo straight to where you are holding Rose and set her free. Afterward, you will leave the body of Sheriff Briggs. I order you.â
A raspy voice replied, âProphet, where am I to go? Do not cast me out into the air, let me inhabit some form.â
âTo which angel do you give tribute?â
âI am bound to the angel Phoenix.â The raspy voice came from
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