Gloom

Chapter 121

“You will soon learn that you should not believe everything in Azazziel. He talks more than he actually does. At most, he'll pretend I don't exist for a couple of days. Except when he's really upset, then it's best to walk away. The last sounded like a warning that he had to remember well.

"I see," I murmured. You would have told me this before.

He laughed again. When I saw that we were taking the route that would take me to my house, I turned aside. I wanted to look at the shore of the Willamette River for a while , because I was sure that in that place we could talk more calmly than walking. He stopped and raised his arm in the opposite direction from where I was going.

"Isn't your house that way?"

"Come on," I urged, "I don't want to get there so soon." Didn't Akhliss say the other day that it would do me good to get out more?

"First of all," he said, holding up a finger, "she meant going out in other ways, drinking and stuff, which aren't very healthy activities to say." And secon