Touray asked Price as if he hadn’t just decided I was going to die. I wondered if I’d be killed before or after he did Amy? I have to admit that I wasn’t that heartbroken that she was going to die, too. Price explained how I’d used the blood null, how he’d healed me, and that we’d opened up the contents of Josh’s safe. He made it all sound so impersonal. “This is what we found inside,” he said, pushing the burlap bag toward his brother. Touray eyed it a moment and then untied the sack and pulled everything out. He read the baggies one by one and set them aside, read the letter to me and Josh’s sheet of notes, and then laid the tin cylinder, the wood box, and the brass wing nut-looking thing in front of the notes along with the pouch containing the vial of blood. “Careful. I used nulls to absorb the protective spells, but I don’t know if they reactivated when I closed them up again,”
