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“Not a soul.”
Everyone raises their gun. I move as quietly as I can to the door. Just as I’m about to grab it, it bursts open.
An angel in glowing battle armor stands there. I recognize her.
It’s the angel I fought in Hollywood.
I put the Glock to her head.
She drops to one knee and holds out a piece of parchment.
“Shoot me if you must,” she says. “But Samael has sent me to you.”
WITHOUT MOVING THE Glock from the angel’s head, I call Candy over.
“Keep the shotgun on her. If she even looks up, blow her head off.”
“Sounds like fun.”
I take the parchment from the angel’s hand and get one of Bill’s candles so I can read it.
Dear Jimmy,
You’re no doubt reading this with a gun to my poor emissary’s head. If I say that you can lower it, will you listen? Of course not, so I won’t. Her name is Hesediel and she is a good and loyal ally in Father’s war. I’m sending her to you because I suspect you could use help in whatever fool’s errand sent you Downtown. By the way, how did you get there, clever boy? You’ll have to tell me about it sometime.
Hesediel is quite the warrior and, like the rest of us, ready for this inconvenience to be over. She’s as ruthless you, Sandman Slim, so you should get along like two peas in a barrel bomb.
Good luck and try to avoid scars during your visit. Any more and you’ll just be showing off.
Samael
P.S. Tell Candy she can keep the shoes.
If the note didn’t call the war in Heaven anything but an “inconvenience,” I wouldn’t believe it.
“Let her up,” I say to Candy.
“Are you sure?”
“Her note says you can keep the shoes.”
“Okay, then,” she says brightly, and lowers her gun.
I hold on to the Glock.
“Get up, Hesediel.”
She stands. In her armor, she’s every bit as imposing as she was when hammering me into the ground with her Gladius. It also looks like the eye I shot out grew back. Neat trick.
“Thank you,” she says.
“I just have one question before I trust you: Why the hell did you try to kill me back home?”
“That wasn’t me,” she says. “It was my sister, Hadraniel.”
“I didn’t know angels had sisters and brothers.”
“A spiritual sister. We were once as close as any human siblings.”
