Luminescence 53

They’d gone round the back of the antique shop.

            Candor had made quick work of erasing the last ten minutes from the three demons. He’d been surprised when Marcus had stepped in to do Ramon.

            Marcus’s powers were different, subtler, his was the power of persuasion and he had persuaded Ramon to forget any of this had ever happened. Watching him at work, as Marcus touched his long fingers to the man’s temple; it was an art form in itself.

            In comparison Candor had touched the demons briefly, hesitant and agitated.

            Even Enda and Annandale had paused to watch Marcus.

            Eros flicked off an invisible piece of dirt from his nails, “Let’s head back to the hotel and mull over our findings,” he inclined his head.

            Enda grumbled, “Why’d you get a hotel when we get”-

            “Enda quiet,” it was Candor who spoke. Eros and Marcus both faced him suddenly brows raised. “Don’t be so shocked that every once in a while I do speak up.”

            But shocked they were and Candor knew why. He’d done their bidding too long, too obediently and payed the consequences. Candor was not going to be left at their mercy again.