Chapter 33: Jabuticabron

The elevator was just starting to move when I leaned over the edge of the platform rim and grabbed it with my power.

Several demon guards, Rutorith among them, looked up at me with startled expressions. I was relieved to see Jabuticabron

in their midst, his weary face none the less eager to see me.

As the platform came to a halt, I shoved the guards aside with power and slipped a shielding of magic around my former

captain, pulling him toward me. Rutorith's hard-edged face darkened, but I shoved him back with more energy.

"There is no law," I said, "keeping me from talking to him, is there?"

Rutorith looked like he wanted to say otherwise, but when Elph came to a thundering halt beside me, slightly out of

breath and waving a piece of parchment, the fight seemed to run out of the old soldier-at least, on this issue.

"According to law," Elph panted, "Ruler may question any demon she wishes for as long as she wishes, as long as that