Lane was the one to react more bluntly this time.  "You could have just been fucking honest with me, from the get-go.  I'm not heartless, if you had explained this all to me...I don't know what I would have left it all behind, but at least it would have been my choice.  Not some shitty thing where you fuck me and act like you love me, and then treat me like a piece of garbage."  Fury burned a little hotter in her since the discovery of her hidden powers, and it felt different in her chest.  Something hot and righteous.<br/><br/>"I played consultant for them for a few years, before I figured out what they were really all about and who was really running things.  I got out while I could."  Nora said, when James mentioned that she had stories.  Lane knew there was more to it, now, Nora had laid a lot of it out for her the night before.  How she had been helping them track a supposedly "lesser demon" and how that demon had not been at all what they had described.   Nora had been forced to watch as the hellspawn broke the back of the man she loved and let him slowly die, helpless to intervene due to some kind of demonic holding spell.  The Syndicate had given the bad information, and Nora had told her that she still wondered if they were simply sent in as a sacrifice.  A way to test this creature's skills.  The demon had left her there, long after it left, letting Nora known that it would feed off her sorrow and pain for years, thanks to the spell.<br/><br/>"That's why I'm here, to keep her from jumping back in....But the look in her eyes, despite the sort of hellfire thing they've got going on right now...Tells me she's not going to listen even if I tell her to tell you to fuck off."  Nora added.<br/><br/>Lane took the book when he offered it and gave Nora a sad look.  Nora was not her sister, but she might as well be.  She didn't call Steve at times like this, she called Nora.<br/><br/>"I guess I shouldn't be surprised that even your kid has some sort of angle for power or something..."  Lane sounded disappointed, but it was not as if she was going to just let this girl be used magically until her demise.  Even if her father was an asshole, that was not fair.  "So how does this relate to me being able to send demons back home kicking and screaming or terminated altogether?  You wanted me to help with Mia before you even knew the Syndicate was involved.  What's your plan? --And so help me, James, if you crack jokes and give me half-truths...I'll sign up for a full membership.  I'll trade my abilities for whatever they wanted your daughter for.  I sort of doubt they have many of the valkyrjur on their lineup..."<br/><br/>In the painful days after their breakup, she'd studied her lineage.   A lot of the Norse magic had been lost, burned and destroyed by the conquering Christians.  Gods required worship and faith and as those things dwindled, often their impact did as well.<br/><br/>"I'll help you save your daughter and then we never have to see each other again.  You can go manipulate some other girl for a contact high."