He takes a drink of ginger ale, working on putting the rest of the memories in order.
"The truth spell," he says. "Everybody sort of congregated by the demon's cell -- Matt and Ava and Kali, and me -- and Matt told the demon what they wanted to do. And they, they offered it every concession -- Matt volunteered to cast the truth spell on himself first, and they said they'd get it a body of its own and let it out of the cells, and it wanted a guarantee that Ava and Kali wouldn't touch it and they agreed, everybody agreed --"
It's hard to tell whether he thinks granting all of these concessions was good or bad. He's not entirely clear on that himself.
"-- and then when it saw what the truth spell looked like on Matt, it tried to back out. It said forget it, come back with a new deal. And I was, I was just so angry ..."
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"The truth spell," he says. "Everybody sort of congregated by the demon's cell -- Matt and Ava and Kali, and me -- and Matt told the demon what they wanted to do. And they, they offered it every concession -- Matt volunteered to cast the truth spell on himself first, and they said they'd get it a body of its own and let it out of the cells, and it wanted a guarantee that Ava and Kali wouldn't touch it and they agreed, everybody agreed --"
It's hard to tell whether he thinks granting all of these concessions was good or bad. He's not entirely clear on that himself.
"-- and then when it saw what the truth spell looked like on Matt, it tried to back out. It said forget it, come back with a new deal. And I was, I was just so angry ..."