“Is that Amy?” Alyxa mumbled as
they came in.
“Yes,” he replied simply.
“Why?”
Lucifer smiled magnanimously.
“She is here to take your place,”
the Morning Star told them with an expansive gesture of his arms.
“She’s what?” Alyxa demanded,
shaken out of the stupor.
Amy blinked, twisting where she
knelt by Bast’s cage.
“What do you mean?” the little
girl asked.
Lucifer moved to kneel at her
side and he laid a calming hand on her shoulder.
-Don’t touch her!- Bast hissed; her
words ignored.
“I mean, little one, that if you
stay here, with me, I will let your friends go. I will let them return to the
World of the Living, if you promise to stay with me forever.”
Amy hesitated.
“‘Forever’?” she echoed, a little
undone by the word itself.
“It is not enough,” Morpheus
said, stepping forwards and setting Alyxa down on the chair Amy had vacated not
long before.
Lucifer’s brilliant eyes flashed
and he met Morpheus’ eyes.
“Do not push me, sweetheart.”
“If you have an Unbound Dreamer, Morning
Star, we will not walk away empty handed.” Morpheus said softly, eyes
narrowing.
The Prince of Darkness took a
moment to consider this.
“Your suggestion?”
Morpheus raised an elegant finger
and pointed at Enyo.
“Kali comes with us.”
“If I release her it should be
into Reveille,” Lucifer countered.
“We will send Amy back.”
The Morning Star hesitated.
“Take the Destroyer then,”
Lucifer murmured, studying Amy, “take her and go.”
-We can’t just leave her!- Bast
roared.
Morpheus looked at the little girl.
“Amy?” Morpheus asked the girl.
She glanced at Lucifer.
“If you let them go and never
touch them again, I will stay.”
“Then it is done,” Lucifer
replied, and waved a hand, “go. Don’t worry, Bast, I will care for her.”
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