Chapter Twenty-One
“The colour that courage failing brought out so quickly in me, seeing my leader retreat, made him, the sooner, check his own new pallor.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
“The two of you stay in the van. This shouldn’t take long,” Alexis ordered, still scrolling through her mobile phone. As a demon she wasn’t supposed to be familiar with technology, but it looked like she embraced the human way of life to a full extent.
Rodriguez didn’t look happy at all.
He and Alexis had no idea that I had brought them down to Suicide Lane. I didn’t think either of them had ever heard about this place.
We stopped right on the edge of the forest. I could make out shapes of the trees in the background. It was pitch black and I wasn’t looking forward to getting lost in there.
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