“I’ve never
seen something like that before” Grigori said. He spun around on his heel and
pierced me with his deep brown eyes, “how did you do that?”
I looked from
him to Ariel to Zadkiel and waited for one of them to make a move, but all
three stood their ground. Ariel looked more frantic than before. Her hair had
puffed up around her head, slipping out of the braid and resembling a frayed
mop rather than a rope, which gave her an altogether mad scientist appearance.
“I asked you
how you did that demon” Grigori
growled at me.
“I did it
because I could. There’s a lot more that I can do that I bet you’ve never seen
before” I replied, my voice cold as ice. I was still holding onto the mass of
darkness around Izzy and Travis and it was taking its toll. Anything I said
from now on would have to be a perfect bluff because that force field was
draining the last remains of my power.
“You said you
wanted to talk” Sebastian interrupted mine and Grigori’s standoff, “so talk.”
His clipped tone had finally seeped through and I could tell that losing all
three of his friends in the space of one minute had really pissed him off and
ground him down. We both knew that we could die, but if I knew Bas well enough,
he’d rather die angry and fighting than desperate and fighting.
“What are you
doing?” Ariel asked after a long stretch of silence that involved all five of
us exchanging mixed glances.
“Yes, what is
it that you are doing exactly?” Zadkiel chimed in. He had continued to smile
despite the fact that the situation had escalated to preposterously tense
proportions. Maybe that was his way of easing his stress? Or maybe he was just
manic.