“We’re having problems making it go away.”
I nodded. “Tyz’vel. I talked to an angel about it.”
Thruor arched an eyebrow. “An angel was actually something resembling helpful?”
“Yeah. I think they’ve decided that courting foreign goddesses is one thing, trying to coerce them is another. Probably why he was just trying to seduce me to start with.”
But he’d apparently decided I was worth any amount of trouble that might come his way from, well, angels or the like. Or something. I wasn’t sure what the or something was, but…I had a feeling there was one.
Maybe he was about to get squished anyway and I wouldn’t have to worry about him any more. “The angel also said I should talk to my dad.”
Thruor pursed her lips. “Even Loki doesn’t always have a good idea, and a prank war between him and Tyz’vel…might be entertaining to watch. From a distance. Like, a different realm distance.”
I laughed. “Yeah. Definitely from a distance. So…I suspect that Loki hasn’t done anything because he doesn’t want to get into it with him. Or…he thinks I can solve the problem myself.”
I paused, then. “Oh, and I did this.” I focused on the older redhead again.
“Oh, not bad at all. You definitely inherited some of the talent for illusions.”
I let it drop. “It really works? I thought it did, but I still looked like me in the mirror.”
“Yeah. I’m told that happens.”
It didn’t surprise me that Thruor didn’t have much in the way of a gift for illusions. It didn’t surprise me at all. It wasn’t her personality.
Was it mine? I didn’t even know right now. “It seemed to work, though. But Tyz’vel’s mind controlling the lawyer.”
“Controlling or possessing?”
I shook my head. “Controlling. I don’t know if he’s inked a contract on the man’s soul or if he’s manipulating him some other way.”
Thruor purses her lips. “We need to find out. If he’s signed in blood we can’t help him. If he’s just being manipulated…”
“…then maybe if we break the manipulation he’ll stop annoying us and start annoying Tyz’vel instead.” I grinned. “I thought you were the straightforward one.”
“I know how I react to being manipulated.” She grinned back at me.
I thought that a lawyer might react differently and see it as all part of the game, but it seemed worth a try.