Chapter 31: The Promise
My feet felt light. My heart floated. If I had been alone, I might have even skipped on my way back to the office. But it was okay that I wasn’t alone. An angel led the way, and I was surrounded by her entourage. It wasn’t that I had suddenly come to embrace the position I was in, but I felt that if an angel - a real angel! - said I belonged here, then maybe I really did.
Cain and Abe left at the door after escorting us to my office, and Luc, Elune, and I entered the place I could perhaps start to call home. I sat on the couch while Luc took a seat across from me, and Elune stood just behind. It was late afternoon. I’d always loved the shade of sunlight at this time of day.
"Nabir."
Not so long after we settled down, Luc summoned the beast-man. Remembering the last time I saw him, I was still a little frightened, but I thought that if he was working for an angel like Luc, then he couldn’t be a bad man - although I still wasn’t quite sure what to make of the fact that he brought a living human heart to save Bada...
Nabir emerged naturally from the ground at Luc’s command, now that there was nothing left to hide from me. I liked that.
The massive man knelt in front of Luc and handed her an envelope. Luc acknowledged with an appreciative nod and opened it, taking out a photograph. She studied it carefully, put it back into the envelope, and handed it over to Elune, who returned to the table - almost tripping on the way - and put it in one of the many cabinets that lined the wall.
"Well done, Nabir. Wait for my command."
With that, Nabir slowly sank back into the ground and disappeared.
"Wow... so you really have... magical powers."
"I’m not too fond of showing them to others."
"But you let me see them."