Todd began the rescue conversation first with visions of Jennifer and I descending down the hell portal once again with a new arsenal of demon shards at our disposal.  We would have shards that could detect human heartbeats, regular breathing patterns, and shards that would make us move at double speed and a shard to decrease our need to breathe at all which would free up our human computer brains to run more complex programs.  It was all very fancy and wonderful sounding. Before I get to the rest of the group, I must say that there is no way in hell, no pun intended, that I was going back down that portal willingly, especially knowing that I was the one that caused Sarah to remain in hell to be devoured by demons or employed by them, who the hell knows?  Jennifer went along with Todd’s idea just to try to push some of the possible suspicion from my person.  She entertained him with questions of possible other shards that could do other miraculous things.

It was a brisk morning; the sun was trying to peak over the horizon as we made our way home to my house.  The dew on the grass in the pristine front yards around the neighborhood was glistening but warning us that our chance to get home undetected was coming to an end quickly.  I was not trying to deal with my parents this morning about being out all night, there was no explanation, nothing that would make sense to them and bring their grace to me for watching the sun rise. We turned the corner to the street my house was on. Remember last time, we had a demon possessed officer waiting for us.  I had to zap him to get us out of danger and that almost led to my parents catching me performing my special ability.  Things were getting too close for comfort; we had dodged so many bullets that one was bound to hit its target at some point. Just u