“What do you mean it wasn’t supposed to happen while I’m alive?” “He’s not just an Architect,” Apollyon said without slowing his pace, his boots tapping loudly on the stone as he carried me down a dark hallway I’d never been down before. “He’s a Vessel.” “Lucifer’s?” Shera’s voice was shrill with terror. “How did he end up here?” “My assumption is that Levi was a sacrifice,” he muttered. “Since he was until recently afflicted with a terminal condition, the transformation would have taken place naturally upon his death.”
