Chapter 45: Sorcerer Demon
If you've known about him and the Planeless, Ahbi's sharp anger cut through my spinning mind, why did you not act well
before now?
"We've tried," Bakari said. "We've been trying for over a year."
I'd never felt so shaken and vulnerable as I did sitting there, with the understanding even those who thought themselves
all-powerful had failed. Maybe I should have felt better about myself and my own disasters, but I didn't.
Their inability just made things worse. Sure, I was off the hook in a lot of ways. If the Daeva couldn't handle the
Planeless, there was no way I could be expected to. And yet, the way they looked at me, that was exactly their
expectation.
"So he's like me, then?" I resisted the words even as I spoke them. Xeoniteridone was nothing like me. "Half witch, half
demon?"
"We believe so," Raethnn said. "At least, that was what he told us."
"Meira, he's a sorcerer," Sassafras said. "It's much more likely one of his parents was from that magical race and not a