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me. I understand. I know you, and that is why
we have come for you.”
    “Are you from the slums?”
    For a bad moment there I had assumed he was
from the Sect. I would be in a world trouble if anyone saw me out
here. I was beyond the Wall, which was forbidden, and I had seen… I
didn’t want to think about the horror I’d seen, and how I’d been
foolish enough to get caught seeing the thing I saw. I had
disobeyed a direct order from a Cleric, something I, a Disciple
training to be a Cleric, should never do. No, I was not so sure
anymore. If Breandan was from the Sect he’d have called to the
Clerics, not hidden me from them. If he was a civilian, I didn’t
see how he could come to be lost Outside. After all, you would have
to get past the Wall to make it out here. There was not a human
alive that didn’t understand the dangers of going over the Wall and
into demon territory.
    I felt stupid then. If there was not a human
alive who didn’t know how dangerous it was Outside, what the hell
was I doing Outside? I was going to have very serious words
with myself.
    “Coming for you is not something I chose, and
believe me, if I could change it I would.” He paused and shook his
head. “We are stuck. You belong to me,” he repeated. “And I to you.
Now we have touched it is sealed. Alright?”
    Sealed my ass. I decided then and there, I
did not like this boy.
    “You cannot appear next to me in the middle
of demon territory and say such silly things,” I said, strained.
“You’re beginning to scare me.”
    That was another lie. I was beyond sacred
now. My body couldn’t keep up a constant pitch of terror, so it had
simply gone beyond terror and pressed a big reset button. I was too
afraid outside to be anything but calm inside. Voice unattractively
shrill, I lowered my clenched fist and took a deep breath. I
moderated my voice.
    “Let’s start with where you’re from?”
    He sighed and scrubbed a hand over his head.
“A place not too far from here. You are very lost.”
    I shifted on the spot. “Are you transferring
to this region to be a Disciple?” It happened. Rarely, for it was
too hazardous to travel large distances through demon territory,
and it was only attempted once a settlement had reached a
population density that put all the humans there in danger. But it
did happen. He shook his head. “Are you visiting Cleric at the
Temple?”
    I was reaching, but that could explain how he
could be so comfortable in the forest. Clerics were not like
regular people and often came from hardy families. The Clerics were
the fastest, strongest most intelligent and intuitive of humankind.
That is why they managed to keep us so safe.
    His face darkened. “No.” The word was fired
at me like a bullet.
    Without preparing myself for the answer I
asked with catty aplomb, “Are you a demon then?”
    “Oh yes,” he said softly.
     

Chapter Two
     
    I waited for the fear and for the panic. I
waited for the scream of terror to rip from my throat, but it never
came. I waited for him to grab me, and murder me, and cut me into
pieces and hide me under the small patch of wild flowers over
there. But he said and did nothing. The clever thing would have
been to get the hell out of there and start running again. But I
didn’t want to, and I was curious as to who and what he was. I
wanted to know why he was stood in front of me, and what he was
after.
    His gaze raked over me again and again,
looking for something.
    “If you didn’t think you were safe you would
ask me to leave,” he said. “And, if you wanted me to leave, I would
have done so already.”
    I hated that his words made sense to me.
“Stop trying to be clever, demon-boy.”
    “I’m trying to help you, demon-girl.”
    His words had the same impact as a blow to
the head. I twitched liked he’d pinched me all over and staggered
back.
    I knew then something menacing was coming
around the corner. I had to accept what he had told me next, right?
Not to