It’s the last day of the weekend trip and Stanley is just about done with the situation but unfortunately he doesn’t have the luxury of just washing his hands of the whole incident especially after a conversation with Ezraphel leads them to stumble upon a revelation that rocks the Lilim to her core forcing Stanley to swallow his reservations and make the ‘ultimate sacrifice’ to salvage his relationship and avoid a possible catastrophe.
But just when things were finally starting to go their way that bastard Murphy hits them with the stealth takedown on their parade.
“My fiancée!” Alonzo explained. “Horus was right! At first, she was pissed enough to rip me a new one” He began to explain, then paused.
“And now?” Mara prompted after a couple more seconds.
“I swear to God, she’s trying to fuck my dick off!” Alonzo answered.
“My doom,” I rasped quietly, “has come upon me,..”, I continued, slowly at first then more rapidly as I continued to speak.
“Let me not,… then die ingloriously,” I continued,…
“Which people would that be?” Juanita asked, trying to get some clarification.
“Can you not tell?” The strange seeming girl asked. Juanita shook her head in negation. The girl looked surprised.
“I am an Annwyfn.” She informed her.
“Uh, yeah.” I said quietly. “Who was it?”
“I don’t know.” Thirn answered fearfully. When I looked at him then, I saw that he was scared. “For all of my abilities, I cannot discern who ‘They’ are. All I do know, is that they manipulate us. To what end? I can only speculate.”
