Samael's POV
"Jasmine and I have searched every realm we can access. It is as if she simply does not exist anywhere," I told Nyxon.
It had been hours since Ava and Adam were taken. The moment that portal had opened in the arena, a wave of demonic energy had hit both Jasmine and me simultaneously — the specific signature of something high-level. One look at Brandon had confirmed what I already suspected. He was no longer himself. From everything I had studied, only a high-ranking demon could reanimate the dead in that way. Brandon was a changeling now. There was a way to reverse it — finding his spirit and returning it to his body — but that was a problem for later. Ava was the priority.
Atlas was holding himself together on the surface. I recognised it immediately. I had been there myse
