[center][h1][color=#EEE8AA]Ezekiel Kel[/color][/h1]
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[I][color=#EEE8AA]Location:[/color][/i] Lotus Hotel & Casino – Las Vegas
[color=#EEE8AA]Skills:[/color]  [/center]
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	It all happened quickly. Ezekiel had been leaning in, willing Nancy to look at him, to look at the light and feel something, anything other than the pain that she was in. She eventually looked at him, and once she did, all the sound snapped back, and Ezekiel was flung away from Nancy and the group.
	The light disappeared from his hands, and he lay on the ground in a daze. People shuffled and moved around him, having been thrown back as well. Ezekiel sat up and rubbed his head, looking at the strangers around him until Demetri’s face flooded his vision. [i]Are you alright?[/i] Zeke looked away from Demetri and down at his hands. This whole quest was so messed up, and Ezekiel didn’t know how to fix it. He couldn’t heal this one. He couldn’t make it better.
	[color=#EEE8AA]”No,”[/color] Zeke said. [color=#EEE8AA]”No, I am pretty far from alright.”[/color] Ezekiel stood, grabbing Demetri’s hand and pulling him up. Ezekiel looked from the group of people he had fought alongside, weighing his options. Zeke looked back at Demetri, searching the demi-god’s eyes for something, anything to tell himself that this would be alright. But Ezekiel knew enough about this world to know it wouldn’t be. For the first time since going on quests, Ezekiel wasn’t sure he would make it out of this one. At least in the other quests, for every fuck-up there were two steps towards victory.
	Ezekiel raised a hand and cupped Demetri’s cheek. Zeke ran his thumb along Demetri’s smooth skin, and he tracked the pattern with his eyes. [color=#EEE8AA]”I hope you get to meet my mom one day. I think she’d like you,”[/color] Ezekiel said.
	Zeke released Demetri’s face and looked back at Nancy. She had murder in her eyes, and the words he heard next made his blood run cold. Nancy was teaching Zeke Latin, but she must not have taught him the words she spoke because he didn’t understand her. Ezekiel pulled Demetri back to the group but kept his distance from Nancy. [color=#EEE8AA]”Nanc…What do you want to do?”[/color] He couldn’t tell her she had to keep going; not after all this. If Ezekiel had to let her go and move on with the rest of the group, he would.  Of course, Ezekiel didn’t want to lose his best friend, but he couldn’t condemn the rest of the group to death. The six of them were sent for a reason. Two of them couldn’t defect and still expect to come out on top, and they were still missing Cassian.