“They are blood demons,” the Devil Mother said, putting her fork down.
“What do you mean? There was only one,” Kyle asked urgently, forgetting about his food. He just wanted the facts.
Ashlee sighed, placing her food aside. “There are lots of them,” she revealed, surprising everyone. Kyle stared at her in disbelief and confusion. How the hell does she know?
“I saw more than one. The other day, when my hand got wounded, I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I saw more than one in that room. They all had something metal-like within them, as if their bodies were secret safes for that sharp metal. I couldn’t run away, so I tried to pull the metal out, which somehow felt right at the moment. I couldn’t control myself. When I was trying to do that, it felt like it was stuck, and then all of a sudden, the
