Working for the Devil

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.

—leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

Lucas went even paler. “Then you’re on the track to suicide,” he whispered. “Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You’re already dead.

I have set you as a seal upon my heart; I will not return to Hell.