Heretics book 3 - The Apocryphile Press

THE KINGDOM :: 323
“Looks like he’s already been making children disappear,”
Susan said. “Although only God knows why. He’s just going
to do it on a much larger scale.”
“Shit...” Richard uttered, and kept repeating it.
“We thought the dogs was the new plague of the
Egyptians,” Dylan commented, “but that was just the warmup.
This is the real deal.”
Richard felt a wave of inferiority rise up the back of his
brain, but he forced it down with an act of will. Pushing off
of the door frame, he stood tall and addressed them commandingly.
“Let’s mobilize, gang. We’ve got work to do.”
He turned toward Kat and the comatose Mikael. “I
worked out an...arrangement with the demon that has been
oppressing the two of you. It should be fine. You can leave
the house.”
“It should be fine?” Terry repeated. “It should be fine?
You mean you don’t know?”
“Look, we made a deal—”
“Great,” sneered Terry, “deals with devils often work out
well for everybody.”
“Look, Kat, it’s your choice. If you want to be absolutely
safe, you can stay here with Mikael. The room is warded,
and we can re-ward the house. I’m just saying, I think you’re
safe.”
She nodded, taking that in and weighing the danger.
“We know what we gotta do,” Dylan said, “but where are
we doin’ it?”
Richard sat on the edge of the bed and felt at the stubble
of his beard, thinking. “When I asked Larch that this afternoon,
he didn’t know. But I think we have three likely locations.
It’s either going to be at Kat’s brother’s place in
Alameda—it’s pretty much set up for this working. Who
knows, the dog working might have been done there as well.
Another possibility is the Lodge house in the lower Haight.