The elevator was just starting to move when I leaned over the edge of the platform rim and grabbed it with my power. Several demon guards, Rutorith among them, looked up at me with startled expressions. I was relieved to see Jabuticabron in their midst, his weary face none the less eager to see me.
As the platform came to a halt, I shoved the guards aside with power and slipped a shielding of magic around my former captain, pulling him toward me. Rutorith's hard-edged face darkened, but I shoved him back with more energy.
"There is no law," I said, "keeping me from talking to him, is there?"
Rutorith looked like he wanted to say otherwise, but when Elph came to a thundering halt beside me, slightly out of breath and waving a piece of parchment, the fight seemed to run out of the old sol
