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what I’m hearing?”
    “Yes. It’s not what you think it is.”
    “Why are you so interested in having it back all of a sudden?”
    “It’s been poisoned by Abaddon.” At some point, Aza’zel knew he told her too much. The Creator had warned him to be wary of her.
    “Who the hell is Abaddon?”
    “Darkness.”
    “This ‘darkness’ told you to help me find the amulet. Did he give you normal legs too?”
    “No, you’re not following. It was Deus. Darkness is my master.”
    “You have a master? What are you, a slave ?”
    Aza’zel sighed. “No. Yes. Well, not anymore. I should say he was my master. Now…I, I dunno.”
    Julia looked both ways and stepped off the curb. “So you’re not a slave?”
    He followed her across the wide lanes of moving traffic to the other side. The driver in the car that whizzed by them honked the horn. Aza’zel had been around the camping humans in the woods enough to learn about cars. It amazed him how many different styles there were. He liked the more compact vehicles. They seemed to go faster.
    “Julia, Deus sent me to help you and he was the one who made me look like this.”
    She stopped on the sidewalk, glanced at him, then resumed walking. “What is a day-yous?”
    “The Creator of All Life.” How did she not know this?
    “Like God?”
    “Yes. This is what Deus means.”
    Julia stared at him for a pregnant moment. “I’ll tell you what, I’ll let you help me. Got any money in those pockets? And where did you get those pants anyway? They’re huge.”
    Money. This was a word he knew. He didn’t know what it looked like exactly but he’d definitely heard the word. He reached into the back pocket of the jeans and pulled out the rectangular leather folded pocket he found in one of the boots. Julia’s eyes widened and she took the wallet out of his hand.
    She opened the it and named off the contents. “ID, useless; photos of the fam, oh, how adorable; Amex, maybe…” She must have found something worthwhile because her eyes lit up like she’d discovered fire. “Well, this is actually something useful.” She grabbed pieces of paper, fanned the folded over bills to reveal the denominations and shoved them into her front pants pocket. Julia extended her hand with the wallet and shook it at him. “Here. Hold this until we find a trash can.”
    His arm froze for a few seconds and his hand twitched at his side.
    She sighed. “Take it.” When he didn’t reach for it right away she dropped the wallet on the ground. “Or not.”
    For the first time, one corner of her mouth perked up into a half-smile. Aza’zel took a deep breath and wrinkled his nose.
    Ahh …s trawberries!
    That was her scent. He focused on her mouth while he breathed deeply.
    “What’s that look for?”
    “I’m hungry.” His mouth watered and he licked his lips.
    “Incredible. You want to eat right now ? This is what you’re thinking about? Food?” He nodded. “All right, whatever. I guess that’ll give us time to figure out what to do next.” She threw her hands up and spun around. “S’pose you can probably eat, unlike me.”
    He scrunched one side of his face. “What?”

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER SIX
     
     
    Julia
     
    Julia leaned forward in the booth across from a demon at Nick’s All Night Diner. Thank God, this place was seat yourself; she couldn’t handle an employee staring right through her.
    How many? Oh, just one.
    No thank you to being reminded she’d died earlier. She shivered.
    A waitress came up to their table. Julia eyed the woman through her lashes. Her gray-rooted ponytail sagged down the back of her head. Ketchup and gravy smeared the front of her apron. “What can I get you?” The demon pointed to the pictures on the menu and the server scribbled on her order pad. Her eyes looked up in Julia’s direction. “And for you?”
    Startled, Julia asked, “What…you can see me?”
    The waitress smirked. “Yeah, honey. Rough night?”
    Julia