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“None of that nonsense now, you’ve been a member of the Sons of Seth for a while now. How long have you been with us?”
“Since I was seventeen.” And I was too young to know what a stupid decision it was to trade my life for magic.
“Ah, so fifteen years or so?”
“Something like that,” I murmured. I hated the idea of having spent half of my life here.
He gestured for me to fall into step with him, and not seeing any other option, I did as he suggested. Though I was already starting to wish I hadn’t come in today.
“I’ve been meaning to email you ever since you cancelled our last appointment to talk about your assignment,” he said.
My blood ran cold at the words. Had he figured out that I’d done that on purpose to avoid talking about what I was supposed to be doing for the Sons of Seth?
“How long ago did you get your assignment?” He turned down one of the soulless corridors that were common within the building. The entire place was like this, as if it was completely devoid of life. Which made sense considering the people who lived here. It had been one of the many reasons I’d jumped at the chance to leave the compound, even if it meant taking the assignment I currently had.
“It was about nine months ago,” I responded. And not long after that, I’d met the one bright spot in my life.
He nodded. “And you’ve been living outside the compound since?”
“Yes.” It was the main reason I’d agreed in the first place. That and the fact I never expected to actually find a god, never mind ending up in the situation I was in with Kuaket.
“And I heard you managed to get into the speed dating event at DeLux Café.”
“Yes.” I didn’t realise they’d been monitoring me as closely as that, which wasn’t good. I didn’t want to think about what would happen to me if they worked it out.
“Good, I’ve heard there are plenty of gods who attend the event. Have you managed to make contact with one?”
We paused while we waited for a group of other warlocks to pass by, and I took the opportunity to try and figure out how to answer his question without lying and potentially causing more issues, while also not revealing the fact that I’d been sleeping with a goddess almost the entire time.
“So?” Willas prompted me once they were gone.
“I’ve met a few.”
“Good, good.” He seemed somewhat distracted by whatever thoughts were racing around his mind.
I stayed silent, not wanting him to probe any further into what I’d been up to outside the building. It wasn’t even whatever it was I had with Kua that I was worried about, I could plead ignorance about her status as a goddess, or explain it away easily enough.
I was more worried he might work out that my loyalty wasn’t precisely with the Sons of Seth the way they wanted their warlocks to be. And this wasn’t exactly the kind of place where you just quit. There was only one way out, and it wasn’t one I was ready to take.
“Well, keep it up,” Willas said. “We’re going to need a god soon.”
I almost paused in mid-stride, but managed not to. Though I was certainly concerned that I was giving too much away. My only solace was that Willas didn’t actually seem to be paying me close attention.
“We do?” I asked.
He nodded. “We had one recently, but you know what happened there.”
“I wasn’t in the building at the time,” I admitted.
“Ah, well we caught a god not far from one of the portals, but then he escaped. A few people gotfired.” The way he stressed the word left no mysteries about what exactly had happened to them.
It was a fate I was certain would await me if Willas discovered how far my thoughts had strayed.
“And it’s important that we don’t let the opportunity slip us by again,” Willas said without waiting for me to say anything else. “We need a god,” he repeated.
“I thought we were supposed to eschew their control.” Which was something that had confused me when I’d first been assigned the task of trying to make contact with one.
“That’s not entirely true,” he responded.
