was There was nothing I could really say to that. I didn’t know that what he was saying was exactly true. But I didn’t know it wasn’t, either.
“I can help you,” he said. “But I will need you to help me, too.”
“How can you help us?” Emma asked.
“I can make sure you get wherever it is you want to be,” he told us. “But my first priority is to safely send this… demon… back to where he came from, so he can’t hurt anyone else here.”
“Why don’t you just talk to him?” I asked. “Explain it so he’ll understand.”
“Daijheen don’t typically react well when you imply they have been wrong.”
DaijheenJack had seemed about to lose control when I’d challenged his methods earlier.
had“And how many more would be injured, or worse,” he went on, “while we were trying to teach him to be something he’s not?
