Rhyn eyed him. “What do you mean?”
“After I left the Sanctuary, I guess you could say I had a visitor who told me about Lilith and why you killed her. How she was working with the Dark One to try to drag Kris and the rest of us down to Hell,” Kiki explained.
“Who told you that? Death?”
“Death? I don’t rate the attention of that creature. It was a dream. Andre told me everything. He also told me you never told Kris, and Kris has believed the worst about you for thousands of years. It’s a long time to bear a grudge, brother, if it’s true. Is it?”
“I don’t care about any of that right now,” Rhyn said impatiently.
“Answer the question, Rhyn.”
“Yes, it is. Now, if we could – “
“You’re like two little – “
“I can beat the shit out of you again to make you help me.”
“Fine,” Kiki said and crossed his arms. “What do you need from me?”
“I need help rescuing Toby from Darkyn.”
“You surprise me, Rhyn. When did you start thinking for – did you say Darkyn?”
Rhyn nodded.
“The demon lord Darkyn.”
“There’s only one, Kiki.”
Kiki considered him for a long moment. Then he said, “On one condition. You must tell Kris about Lilith. I’m sick of this war between you two. We need you both on the Council.”
“You sound like Andre,” Rhyn said and scowled, wondering how a long-dead woman and a newly dead woman could still cause him such grief.
“Yes or no.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s go. Wait,” Kiki said as Rhyn opened a portal. “Do you have a plan?”
“You.“
Kiki sighed. “Nevermind. Wait here. Ully was working on something awhile ago. I was supposed to field test it for him.”
Rhyn crossed his arms, irritated. Kiki trotted from the patio into the house perched on a hill overlooking Tokyo. He returned ten minutes later with a small briefcase, a jacket and a hard case for his iPad. Rhyn opened the portal, and the two strode through it, back to the massive tree where Rhyn had lost Toby in the cold, wet French Alps.