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did not know exactly what to expect from her new partner. What she did know was that if she did not stand her ground in at least one or two areas she would be overrun within a week. She knew that Admiral Bullosky was a demon; a real life demon. That meant that he was immensely more powerful than she in nearly every single way possible. She also knew however that if he had all of the power and all of the ability that he needed to dominate the entire Earth, he would not have asked her for a partnership. Something bothered him. Whether it was Eric Bayne and Destiny or that the heavenly hosts were much more prepared and ready for the demons than he led on, she couldn’t say.
    “How badly do you want this relationship to work Dr. Cain?” Bullosky asked when the room was clear.
    Dr. Cain looked solidly into his eyes, “How badly do you want it to work Admiral?”
    Bullosky took a slow walk around the corner of the table. Cain assumed that he was attempting to calm himself or at least trying to make it look like he was. Finally he looked up with a relatively calm expression and said, “Dr. Cain, you need me on your side in order to get to where you want to be. Do you want that opportunity ruined by your grandstanding and pride?”
    “Oh, that’s a good one; a demon accusing someone of being too prideful. Isn’t that how all of this started way back in that certain garden?” Genesis Cain smiled briefly before continuing, “Look Bullosky, you are not wrong but guess what? You need me and O.A. on your side in order to get to where you want to be as well. This is going to be give and take my new co-president. I will give you the lead a lot of the time. You can take liberties with some things but hear me and hear me well. If you attempt to override me again in a meeting, in a one on one conversation or in any other way that would suggest we are not partners, Organic Ascendancy will no longer be willing to play your little game. My doctor is smart enough to have already backed up and re-backed up the new technology he had learned. Right now we could lose everyone on staff that is above clearance level and we still could survive without you. If you want a war with someone else on your plate, try to override me again. I will withhold my support of you and your demonic horde. Without me, you do not have one person in O.A. You might take us down into the dust in a war, but should it come to that, you will take your losses as well. I guarantee it. We are either partners, fifty –fifty, or we are enemies who shall fight to the death. Which is it Admiral?”
    For a moment Dr. Cain thought that their young partnership would end right there with the demonic Admiral doing something drastic and dramatic to burn her to ash. That would be okay because if he did something to her, she knew well that her people would die before they followed him. She needed the help of the demons for now. For years they had tried to fight against the zombies. Now that joining the demons meant working with zombies, she was perfectly fine with people being upset by that.
    They should question her. She didn’t have to answer them or even act as if they had a right to question her; but they should question. Dr. Cain also figured that Abel Nichols was probably right about Bullosky blocking his spiritual contacts. The fact that he was probably about to make really good points that would draw into serious question whether or not Eric Bayne and Destiny were dead made it quite okay that Mandy had silenced him as well.
    Whatever the combination of factors that were swirling around in the demon’s head, he actually surprised Dr. Cain in responding in a calm fashion. “Doctor, I respect that you have the courage to stand up to me. Actually it makes for a better relationship between the two of us but only because you have a good reason behind it. If the case was that you were only grandstanding out of jealousy, you would not have made it out of this room today. As it is,