5. Sydney
Danger, Will Robinson. I had a full bladder and two massive, fragile wings coming out of my shoulder blades.
Was this like being drunk and needing someone to hold your hair back?
I liked these guys, and I didn’t want to go there with them.
Kujo was annoying, but I didn’t want to do that with him either.
Then again, doing nothing was equally embarrassing and very messy. Thankfully, Wrathhog came back before I pissed myself. Hopefully, she wasn’t mad about the little zap I gave her and would help me. She took one glance at the look on my face, and I didn’t have to say anything.
“Out. Girl emergency.”
“I’m good at girl stuff,” Nero said.
“Me too. I grew up surrounded by sisters,” Celix said.
“Out, dipshits. You don’t need to wipe her arse for her,” Kujo said, winking at me.
Dick. I must not have been hiding it well.
But at least they were gone. Wrathhog had gone through this and was able to walk me through walking and dealing with the toilet like this.
The wings were more manageable than I thought they were going to be.
They felt heavy when they were resting against my back, but didn’t feel like much when I was up and walking. I just had to avoid tripping over them.
I washed my hands and exited the bathroom. Wrathhog was waiting.
“In theory, when you went boom, all your angelic perks came in. Since you’re managing your wings well, the super strength is there. I’ll have to teach you healing, portalling, and flying, but you seem to have figured out your own version of smiting.”
“Figured out is generous. The magic that hit me hurt like a bitch and it pissed me off. I just reacted. I’m not sure I could do it again.”
“Furies are upper demons, and you’ve got human DNA. That spell should have done a lot more than piss you off. Especially since you took it straight to the chest because you didn’t know how to block it. I like Kujo, but I don’t think you do. Why’d you jump in front of him?”
Question of the decade. He was a nard, but I liked verbally and physically sparring with him. I didn’t think he should die because his mom was a bitch who didn’t know that no was a complete sentence. I’d probably miss him, and I’d have to process that later.
“He’s the only one who can find Lucifer.”
Yeah, we both knew I was lying, but girl code prevented Wrathhog from calling me on my shit.
“I can’t believe you brought that shirt down here with you.”
“It’s one of my favorites. How was I supposed to know the Princes of Hell were going to find it offensive? They’ve got to be shitting toothpicks with that stick lodged so far up their asses.”
“I mean, not all of them.”
“Obviously. Did you find anything at Lucifer’s?”
“Okay, first things first. All the princes fought a brutal rebellion and then got banished to this place. Over the years, some have had regrets, but there’s not much they can do about it.
They’re all paranoid, even my dad. There are hidden rooms and secret passages all over their estates.
The locations are generally hidden from the other princes, but I happen to know where they are at Lucifer’s. ”
“How?”
“Well, the reason I know your dad would have brought your mom here as soon as he knew she was pregnant was because he loves kids. I was over there all the time as a kid. Abaddon’s too. I played hide and seek all over their estates, and they trusted me with the best places to hide.
“As far as I knew, I was the only person who knew where the hidden passages and secret rooms were in three of the prince’s estates, but apparently not.
The servants don’t even know about them, so they haven’t been cleaned since Lucifer went missing.
I don’t really have access to the passages anymore, but I can kind of tell one of the doors have been opened recently. ”
“Well, they better not have been peeping on my demonic threesome. How do I keep them out?”
“Is that why you saved Kujo, you minx?”
“Gross. Celix and Nero.”
“Methinks thou dost protest too much. Anyway, if you want to keep anyone out of Lucifer’s passages and secret rooms, you’re going to have a donate a little blood for the spell to re-key the locks.
Dad and I can’t do it because they were originally keyed to Lucifer. You can do it because you share DNA.”
“So, this may be a stupid question, but we don’t have magical locks where I grew up. I know how to break into places because I was a latchkey kid who sometimes got locked out of the house and I didn’t want to sit on the porch until Mom got home. I’m guessing they can’t be broken into.”
“In theory, the only people who can bypass a lock that’s been blood spelled are people who have been allowed in, but I think if you had the blood of the original caster, you could still get in.
We share DNA with our parents, but ours is still unique.
Yours should keep anyone out if you can master the spell.
You shouldn’t do any magic with your wings like this. ”
Neat. I wasn’t setting foot in that house until I could make sure someone wasn’t creeping through the walls.