KAEL SHADOWBORN
She says the name and I stop breathing for about three seconds. Not because I don't know it. Because I do.
"You've heard it before," Aria says, not even asking. She can feel it through the bond, I can tell.
"Yeah," I say.
"When?"
I run my hand through my hair. It's still early, still that 4 AM quiet, and this is not how I expected this morning to go but I've stopped expecting things to go how I expect them.
"The exorcism," I say. "When we freed my father. He had maybe twenty minutes of being himself before he asked me to end it." I look at the wall. "He used that name. He said it was the one who made the arrangement. Whoever possessed him and controlled him for thirty years, that person had a human handler above. Someone giving instructions from outside the supernatu
