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“What about the humans they killed here? Don’t their families deserve closure?” Maeve practically spits in anger.
“Have you gone upstairs or downstairs to see what’s left of those people?” She doesn’t answer, so I decide to fill her in. “You won’t find anything to determine who they were, and neither would the police. Demons devour every part.”
“They could case the place for fingerprints.”
I laugh bitterly. “I understand your need for closure, but sometimes people don’t get closure. What’s more important for the greater good? Identifying a dozen or so dead people, or keeping the human population in the dark about literal demons roaming among them? You open that Pandora’s box, and there will be much more bloodshed on your hands.”
Danny’s face pales and Maeve’s turns a bit green, but nobody argues with me past that.
“Out. I’ll take care of this,” I order, and they all obey.
We didn’t bring gas or anything else that could help to light this sucker on fire, so my power will be necessary. I call upon the wind and draw a storm to me. Within moments, lightning strikes overhead and thunder rolls. I throw my hands into the air and summon the energy down around me. A bolt strikes the house, and I direct the flames to encircle the room filled to the brim with the dead. In a matter of moments, the house is on fire and flames are licking at my legs.
I walk through the door just in time for the house to begin to crumble to the ground.
It’s all happening far faster than what’s humanly possible. Damage this great would result from something more in line with an explosion, but that’s exactly what my powers created.
How I’m going to explain this to Blaine, who seems too curious for his own good, is beyond me, but right now, that’s not my problem. I might be playing with fire, but I won’t be the one burned in the end.
