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The guard nodded.

"Very well." he responded.

He then pressed the button, unlocking and opening the door. When he did that, Ally's demon helped her make her way into the building, where Kiah was.

"Geez, this is a right mess." he said.

"Hey!" he said to Ally.

"Ask the firebrand where Azazel and that archangel are."

".........." the man was silent for a moment.

"And your name?" he asked.

"Allyssa Duchannes." Ally responded.

The guard then pressed a button on the comm system, and waited for a response.

"Miss Fyrane, there is an Allyssa Duchannes here to see you." he said. "Can you come and verify this is her?" he asked.

After a moment, she heard a male voice clearing their throat.

"Excuse me." he said.

"Can I help you?" he asked.

She then realized that she was in the landing area of an office building. A security check, more precisely. And it looked vaguely familiar to her as well.

"I'm afraid this isn't a shelter." the guard told her.

"Are you all right? Do you need me to call an ambulance or something?" he asked further.

After a few more moments of silence, her demon spoke.

"Woah." he said.

"I didn't know you could do THAT." he commented, looking around.

"Hm." he muttered.

"Now we just need to figure out where the hell you took us." he said further.

"Hey, head left." he then said, looking at a building off to her side.

"The gates have been opened!" the demon exclaimed.

"KID, LOOK OUT!" he then yelled.

However, by that point, Levi had already lunged forward, knocking Ally to the ground. He was doing his best to pin her, and placed his thumbs on her neck. He was going to choke her.

As she looked up at him, she saw that his eyes were still clouded over, but his pupils were quivering and shaking from behind the cloudiness. Also, it almost seemed as though dark currents of mana were spreading out underneath his skin, originating from the eyes.

"I..." Levi stammered.

"I think... it went something like this." he went on, before pausing and taking a deep breath, composing himself.

"... Sl'kafa..." he said.

"...what...?" the demon muttered.

"...heydi... f'tijla..." Levi went on.

"NO!" the demon exclaimed. "DON'T LET HIM FINISH-" he went on, his voice panicked.

"Kysri... sindys." Levi finished.

"SHIT!" the demon yelled, before Levi's eyes glazed over, and his pupils became clouded.

Levi was breathing heavily for a few moments, before he shook his head.

"I... the shadows." he said.

"The shadows were consuming me. Closing in on me." he told her.

"Eyes... frightening eyes everywhere." he went on.

"So many noises and voices. But... but they... they kept saying something." he then said.

"One thing... over and over again..." he went on, as Ally's demon raised an eyebrow.

".........hm?" he mumbled.

Gregory looked at the large book, and placed his hands on the pages.

"Time to scan." he said.

"Dead conduits, and see if I can't talk to any of them." he went on.

"See if I can't get any useful info." he mumbled further.

He then just sighed, and drummed his fingers lightly.

"I still get this ominous feeling of impending chaos..." he said to himself.

-A little over a week later-

Levi was trapped deep within the throes of a nightmare. A bad one. He was sweating heavily, and tossing and turning, while his teeth clenched together.

Suddenly, his eyes shot wide open, and he rose to a sitting position, his mouth opening, and a bloodcurdling scream of sheer terror rang through the house.

"Go on." Gregory told her.

"We need to scrape up any information we can." he said.

"Hmmmmmmmmm..." he then mumbled, seeming to get lost in thought.

"Maybe I should look at the book." he told himself.

"See if I can glean any info from it." he added, making the big book of the dead appear before him.

"No, this wouldn't be in his own head." Gregory agreed.

"A conduit's mana seems to stop that from happening." he said.

"...which means something is DEFINITELY wrong... and certainly somewhat familiar..." he then muttered.

"I just wish I could remember why this sounds so familiar to me." he said further.

"Like, I get the feeling this has happened in the past..." he went on.

"And it didn't end well..."

"................" Gregory was silent for a moment.

"Right, NOW this is sounding alarmingly familiar." he said.

"So he can't say any of the words? Literally?" he asked. "He literally chokes up?" he asked further.

Madison just nodded.

"That is alarming." he commented.

"Something like that is... not normal."

Gregory looked over at Madison when she said what she did.

"...you know... I really didn't want to hear something like that." he told her.

"That's usually bad news." he said.

"But... all right, fine." he sighed.

"What do you mean?" he asked her. "What new info has come to light?"

Levi thought for a moment, and nodded.

"All right." he said.

"I'll do that." he told her.

He then looked around, before starting to dig through one of his drawers.

"I know I have an unused journal in here somewhere..." he mumbled.

"Should be perfect for this."

"Okay then, thanks." Levi replied.

"I hope you find something." he told her.

"I... need help. I need to find out what's going on." he said.

"And I hope this is just some small thing. Like... the blockers just being weird or whatever." he went on.

"Or if this is something else, how to block THEM. If I even CAN." he then added.

"It's really starting to interfere with school and sleep." he lamented.