not come here for that. You have come because there
is information youseek.”
Again, a truth he couldn’t deny. It had been four days
since he’d harvested Joe Marin’s darksoul. He hadn’t
managed to find out a damned thing about the girl since
then. But he’d heard a shitload about the cult that called
itself the Setnakhts. And he’d found out that he wasn’t
the only one interested in that fact. Turned out, Xaphan
and his concubines were very interested in Frank Marin.
The same guy the Setnakht’s were asking questions
about. The same guy the Daughters of Aset had gone
sniffing after. Who just happened to be Joe Marin’s
brother.
He had coincidences coming out his ass.
Problem was, he’d hit a dead end. His information
had stopped at that, teasers without substance, nothing
solid to move forward with. He couldn’t go directly to
Xaphan. Sutekh had a history with the keeper of the
lakes of fire, and it wasn’t exactly friendly.
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He sure as sugar couldn’t approach Aset. She’d as
soon shred one of Sutekh’s sons as talk to him.
Which left only Osiris, her brother, who also just
happened to be her husband. Dagan knew there was a
squick factor there for mortals, but he figured, hey, to
each his own. Not his business who slept with whom.
He had a more immediate concern: to find a way
into Osiris’s inner sanctum, Dagan needed to pass
Anubis, who was currently looking at him as though
