Honorless
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This was intentional. Leaving me the ring. Leaving me a way into this room. He had been prepared to die when we walked into Purgatory.
If he had entrusted this to me, there had to be a reason. I pushed the door all the way open and strode into the room. The chest had been the one mystery we hadn’t managed to solve. I stopped in front of it and took a deep breath. I could be wrong, but my instincts were telling me this was what he had wanted to lead me to.
I pressed my hand to the chest. A tendril of magic rose up into my palm and the answer came to me. I knew what the chest wanted. Grief threatened to choke me before I even spoke. I swallowed it down and squared my shoulders.
“Logan Blackwell is dead.”
The chest warmed under my hand as light bloomed out from the runes protecting it. The magic wrapped around me then swept through me, probing my mind and my heart. I didn’t know what it was looking for, but it must have found it. With a groan, the lid of the chest opened.
An apparition rose from the chest. It wasn’t real — I could feel the hum of magic from the chest giving it form, but as his face took shape, my heart still clenched in my chest.
“Blackwell?”
“Guess my plan worked,” he said with a crooked smile.
“So, you know now.”
I turned slowly and found Yui sitting on the edge of the desk, legs swinging contentedly. She wore some kind of frilly dress and a bow in her hair. The entire outfit was at odds with the seriousness of the situation, but I’d come to understand her a little. Underneath the mischief and silliness was real concern.
“I guess I do.”
She tapped her nails against the wood. “Do you have a plan?”
I glanced back at the chest. There was more in there besides ghosts. Things I needed to take with me. “The start of one. I need to make a phone call.”
She hopped off the desk and sashayed her way to the door. “I’m going to go check on our little hacker boy. He owes me a favor.”
I shook my head as I dialed Hiroji’s number. He answered immediately.
“Swift?”
“I need your help. I found something and...I know why Blackwell died.” My fingers tightened on the phone.
“I’ll be there in five minutes.”
Forty-Six
Something stirred in the darkness, waking me. I opened my eyes but my view didn’t change. There was nothing down here but me.
And me… a voice whispered.
I froze. “Chaos?”
A cackle sent chills down my spine. Of course.
Everything flooded back to me. Purgatory. Freeing Prometheus. Then...everything going to shit.
I tried to sit up and felt soil shift under my hands. “Where are we?”
“In Hell.”
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