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possible to tie to her. After all, she was exactly what he had spent the last several years of his life learning to hate and kill. Yet, here they were. He had tied both a demoness and a Verger to himself with his Soul Song. Then they discovered that the tie extended between all three of them; like an uncomfortable three way phone call.
                  Cadence was a Verger, a denizen of that mysterious place between heaven and hell.  More correctly, she was the first Verger.  She was also a Nephilim, the giant offspring of an angel and a human.  It still seemed odd to Lyric to call the small woman a giant. However, he figured since that was how the angels referred to her, he would too.  Cadence had been around for a very long time. Lyric did not know how long.
                  It seemed rude to ask.
                  Three days ago, a flock of harpies had attacked Acheron.  Odd enough by itself, since the only harpies in America lived in the wilds of Montana.  Odd also, because at the time of the attack Lyric, Acheron and Cadence were in California, walking down a busy sidewalk in downtown Sacramento.
                  Lyric tried to lead the vile creatures away from the crowded area.  Thankfully, the people thought it was some kind of street performance and cheered wildly when Acheron burnt several of the bird-ladies to ash.
                  America.
                  Since then, they had been attacked by goblins, a coven of witches, a pissed off chimera, two ogres and now their latest assailants: trolls. It quickly became apparent that every attack was focused on Acheron.  Lyric and Cadence were ignored until they involved themselves.
                  Now it was trolls. Why trolls?
                  The huge brutes stood stupidly in the road, forcing Lyric to stop or wreck his car on their brick house bodies. The Soul Singer jumped out of his car and began singing in an effort to persuade the beasts to go away. Instead his song only resulted in riling them up enough to charge the trio.
                  “Keep them away from my car!” Lyric shouted before singing a short phrase that ripped a nearby pine tree from the ground and hurled it into the lumbering monsters. He could feel Cadence and Acheron both rolling their eyes.  
                  Acheron had hopped out the other side and shot gouts of Hell fire at them, setting them and the tree ablaze. That resulted in making them angrier; as well as smoky and smellier.
                  Acheron advanced, preparing to get physical when Cadence shouted and they all turned to see a second company of trolls appeared from the trees on either side of the road behind them.
                  Acheron tore into the first group without mercy, grabbing, twisting, breaking, and tearing.  The trolls pounced on her, trying their best to turn her into jelly; a pointless effort since as a demoness she could simply smoke out and reform.
                  Lyric and Cadence squared off against the new arrivals.  A handful of them faced the Singer and Verger directly while the rest went around them to join the attack on Acheron.
                  Lyric ducked a clumsy fist and kicked his opponent's knee.  Even with his augmented strength, all he got out of the troll was a grunt.  He hated fighting trolls.  It was like fighting big, angry rocks. The other troll he faced grabbed for him and the Singer jumped backwards, barely avoiding certain death.
                  Cadence moved fluidly between her two trolls, spinning, hacking, slicing, and generally behaving like a psychotic blender.  The Verger was an amazing warrior.  The fact that her efforts were barely scratching the enemy was making her more than a little annoyed.
                  Lyric looked over to see Acheron smoking out and reappearing, happily