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a glassy
vision as the hellhound ripped the final demon apart. Ah man,
now I have to do this with a broken and bleeding nose .
Finished, the hellhound looked up and straight at me. Oh
shit!
    Okay, so what did I do the last time? Oh yeah, I slammed him with a huge bomb, wrapped my legs around
his neck and tried to choke him. I stood, wiping the blood of
my jeans. Dark, crimson eyes watched my every move. Okay, big
boy, let’s rumble. I stormed him and jumped into the air, going
for his neck. Mid-air I was grabbed.
    “Oh crap.” I looked into those red eyes as he
held me suspended in the air.
    “We can’t, perhaps, talk about this like a
normal pair of fallen, can we?” I asked.
    Silence.
    All he did was watch me. Clearly not. Alright, Lada said I could do this from a distance. I am sure being
held in the air qualifies at the moment. I concentrated, trying to
calm him . What calms me? Oh, I know. The feeling bubbles
always give me when I climb into the bath. The way they creep up my
flesh and goosebumps break out all over me. Then the amazing
feeling of being wrapped in warm water that smells like flowers. I
focus on the delightful smell each one would give off when it
popped, and how I would breathe in deep to collect it. Absolutely
the closest to heaven I could get. I pried my eyes open slowly, and
found a pair of blue eyes watching me intently.
    “You really like bubbles, don’t you?” The
smile broke out over his face, igniting my fae pissed off
instantly button.
    I turned and ripped myself from his hands,
landing gracefully for a change. I stood up and turned to give him
a huge smack, only to walk straight into his chest. Argh!
    “Are you hurt? Why is your nose bleeding?” He
lifted my face up to look at it.
    “I thought it would be awesome to have a
broken noise! The bloody demon did it! Now, let go of me and back
the hell away from me.” I glared at him, as he stepped back. His
smile was replaced with a frown.
    “I told you to wait. Why don’t you ever
listen to me?” Oh, he so going for a huge smack.
    “I am the Custos. You are the Apprendo. I say
duck. You ask where. That is how it works.”
    He looked around at the scene around us. “You
mean it’s supposed to work that way. Clearly I have more skills
than you, even as a so-called Apprendo in your world.” He
didn’t!
    “What! You have years to go to even try and
reach my level of awesomeness. Years, jerk. And let me tell you, you lost control here, not me!”
    He crouched down and picked up his swords.
“Yes, I won’t deny that, but I also saved you in the process.” Oh, hell no!
    “Now, you look here. I am this close to
really showing you my level of awesomeness. You didn’t save me. I
was trying to figure out how to pin them down to get some
information from them. You know we are trying to find a loco harpy
and a demon price?” I was up, okay, well, sort of, in his face.
    He looked down at me. “We already have
Kasadya to stress over all the time, Nanini. You can’t just storm
in like her. Watch. Gather intel, and then form a plan and
execute.”
    Yep, my arm totally jumped up all on its
own. The uppercut was short, sweet and bloody amazing. He held
his jaw, bent over. “And that’s why I am the Custos and you are the
Apprendo, Apprendo.” I turned around and walked away, my nose
pounding from the pain. No worries; in a few minutes I would be all
healed up.
    “ Alright, fallen, let’s call it a night
and report back to Exsilium,” Vulcan instructed using
Corra.
    I stopped and turned around to look at the
jerk. He was standing over what was left of a demon, looking at it.
“We need to get back. Have you gathered enough memories from the
scene?” I taunted him. He didn’t move, didn’t reply, and I could
feel distress creeping over me.
    “Max!” I yelled at him.
    “What if you weren’t around? What if I went
born when I was alone? Would it be a human I would look at and not
a demon?” His voice was filled with regret, and