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Core fell to his knees. Hell? He has already been there. He worked there. And even now he's in his own personal hell. Nikoli might know what he's talking about, bu he had no right saying that Core wouldn't go to hell when he has already been through it.
He looked down to the floor and clenched his fists. He couldn't believe that someone like Mrs. Hunter could simply kill herself. Even if she was infected she wouldn't. He believed that.

Nikoli headed downstairs and burst through the front door. "******** this." He heads out to the middle of the dirt road and draws a pentagram in the dirt.

+It doesn't work like that, Azrael.

+You have more in common with that "angel" than you think, Nikoli.

+That's up to you. You are still trying to get into heaven, aren't you?

Nikoli closes the portal and kicks dirt over the pentagram. "Dammit."

[[eh... what happened? o-o? where's barick?]]

((Yep, That's where he is.))

"Hey..." Aislin said in a soothing tone. She touched his shoulder gently. For all their arguments, she was honestly concerned for him. He was a faithful partner, someone who looked after her back really well. If he let her she would try to look after his, "Being treated like what? What are you talking about? What happened up there?"

Nikoli shakes his head. "I can stand being not trusted- I'm used to it by now. No one trusts a shadowdancer- why should they? All it would take is for Hades to find your soul as evil and demand it, and I'd put a knife in your back. I didn't expect you all to trust me when I first got here, but it isn't fair for me to get blamed for things I didn't know- and thus didn't do."
His expression hardens. "Especially from an Angel." He spits.

He looks down at the half swept-away pentagram in the dirt. "I want to give you something, Aislin. Just in case somewhere down the line you need me..."
Nikoli reaches into his backpack and takes out a notebook. He writes something down, fold the paper, and hands it to her. It says 'Azrael'.

"Don't say it." Nikoli cautions her. "At least, not now. That's my demon name, after the fallen angel of wrath. If you speak that name, I will be brought instantly to your side, but I warn you- I won't be who you see me as now... and only the one who says the name can control me. This is a last resort, do you understand?"

Nikoli takes a breath. "I don't work for Satan or God either. I work for Hades, who makes sure everyone goes to their proper place. You may be more right than you know."

He turns around, and a laughing fit overtakes him for a second. "Heheh... so that's it, then, is it? Not going to try and convince me to stay?"
Nikoli laughs again, a little.
"Try not to die, okay? I'd like to bump into you again someday."

The circle of magic sparked and rebounded. Holy magic was not something he could do, and his crystallis only had an understanding of it at best. The half Angel's eyes became pure white before he slumped over. Despite what Nikoli said, Core was not a pure Angel. He was something that probably shouldn't exist. Being half human and half Angel was a contradiction of terms.

Core's holy magic might have worked, had the environment been pure. However when Nikoli summoned the portal from Hell, he lost control; which was simple for him to do. His body still functioned, while his mind was separate from his body. Stuck in a limbo similar to purgatory.