Death Rites: An Urban Magic Academy Fantasy (Gates of Eden: The Voodoo Legacy Book 3) by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Monroe, Theophilus]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

“A new host? Baron Samedi has used the same host for a millennia or more. Rumor has it that his usual host had been a Babylonian.”

I raised my eyebrows. “Didn’t know that. Impressive.”

Brayden nodded. “So he was giving Nico his soul back… just to mount him.”

“He was going to allow Nico to be at rest, give him his soul back so he could die as a human, so he could rest in peace.”

“And then Kalfu happened.”

I nodded. “Exactly.”

“And you got the Baron’s aspect how?”

“The first time I brought the Baron back, the first time we fought Kalfu and imprisoned him inside of Pauli. He’d given it to me then, but I didn’t know it. Then when we went to the land of the dead, Isabelle took over… and my soul was lost.”

“Until the Baron brought you back, through the aspect he’d given you.”

I nodded.

“Well that’s something. But without a Ghede Loa to train you in it, I’m not sure what we can do. It’s like having a nuclear silo on your property without the launch codes.”

“An apropos metaphor, I suppose,” I said. “And I’m not exactly in the mood to go nuclear, either. Everyone already knows about Isabelle, which means…”

“It means you can’t trust anyone.”

I nodded. “Not the Loa anyway. They are all wanting to use the power she has for whatever their own agendas are.”

“And you aren’t worried that Oggie is manipulating you, too?”

“It has crossed my mind. But he’s saved me more than once. Until he gives me a reason not to trust him, I think he’s earned the benefit of the doubt.”

“If you say so.”

I put my hands on my hips. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Only that the Loa do not do what they do out of charity. If he is helping you, or has helped you in the past, he’s getting something out of it.”

“I don’t doubt he is. But people are like that, too. Not many of us help others out of the goodness of our hearts. Even when we do nice things, it’s usually selfish. We do it because it makes us feel better. It allows us to go on imagining that we’re actually good people when we know we’re just as shitty as anyone else deep down.”

“That’s a pretty pessimistic way to look at the world,” Brayden said. “You don’t think there’s more to it than that?”

I shook my head. “When you’ve been through the shit I’ve been through, you don’t tend to look at the world through rose-colored glasses.”

“Doesn’t mean you have to look at it through poop-colored glasses.”

I laughed out loud. “Poop-colored?”

“Shut up. It’s the first thing that came to mind. I’m still a kid, you know. I still think poop is funny.”

“Farts, too?”

“Hilarious!”

“Of course,” I chuckled. “Well I appreciate the alliance. I wish I knew a way to use the Baron’s aspect to even the score.”

Brayden shook his head. “He’s been training in his aspect for a while now. If you’re face-to-face with a samurai, are you going to try to take him down with your sword?”

I smiled.

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