“Yes, but I was not permitted to peruse. Am I permitted to now? We can play doctor. I will examine you closely.”
“The longer you speak, the more I wouldn’t mind pushing you off the roof,” I say as I debate how hard it’d be.
“You can try all you want; I will not tumble from this roof. Why is it so flat? So fancy. You’re a very fancy boy, Ellison.”
“Let’s go to sleep.”
“Is me being out here disrupting your slumber? You do need your beauty sleep or I’m afraid you’ll turn out like your mother.”
My lips quirk. “My mother is missing a lot more than sleep. Maybe one of your demons can find a heart for her.”
Asmodeus cackles. “I will ask for one.”
Then he freezes and I look in the direction he’s facing, but his expression is unreadable as he stares.
“Did you sense that?”
“No… I didn’t sense anything.”
He lifts his rifle and peers through the scope before lowering it. “Whatever it was, it was there for only a moment.”
“You saw someone out there?” I ask.
“For just a moment.”
I stare into the darkness, wondering how the hell he could see anything. I sure can’t. “I can send an illusion out to look.”
“It’s gone now, but if you’d like. I don’t want to leave the area with your body here.”
“Okay.”
I jump from the roof, landing on my feet since height can’t hurt me. I head out in the direction he’d seen something, but I don’t see anything out here. I make it about thirty feet from thehouse before I get a stabbing pain in my head and the illusion flickers before I’m slammed back into my own body.
“Fuck,” I mutter as I rub my head. Did… did someone just… kick me out of my illusion?
Asmodeus pushes the bedroom door open and looks at me. “Did you see something? What happened?”
“No, it just felt like someone pushed me right out of my illusion. It threw me a bit.”
“You’re okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
Asmodeus stares off in the direction he’d seen someone, but it’s not like he can see through walls no matter how good his eyesight is. His blue eyes flicker over to me. “I’m going to keep watch.”
“The house has a security system in place.”
“You think supers can’t get through security systems?”
I ease myself up. “I don’t know, Asmodeus, but we can’t just have you leave yourself in danger while I slumber away.”
“Sure we can.”
“Well, we’re not going to.”
“What are you going to do about it? Are you going to climb onto the roof yourself and knock me down?”
“I might!”
