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"From an eagle." Before Fox could say it, Stuff did. "Just like it did that day, at the Mass."

"So, that means... That eagle, that thing, has done something like this before?"

"It has been doing it for thousands of years," said Fox. "But when it was punished for a transgression, it was locked under a thick layer of levu itologi, which roughly translates to a heavy layer of punishment. It would only break when the one invoking it holds the same density of evil, and... Mr. Donatho was like that." His voice trailed off.

"But despite that," Stuff spoke up, "in order to invoke it and to make everything go as planned, something had to be given in return."

"What thing?" Elijah asked.

"Two... Lives," he replied.

Elijah looked at the brown-haired man as he pieced together everything he was hearing. As he saw the sadness and anger in his voice, even if the Sheriff took it as something normal, Elijah didn't see it that way. He deduced that the same eagle had done such terrible things befor