Libby glanced to Everest who just waved her on. She grimaced. “Okay, so I never actually died⁠—”

“EXCUSE ME?” Katherine shouted, shaking her head and hands. “You died. I saw it myself. I tried to resuscitate you. You died⁠—”

“Everest?” Libby turned to him with pleading eyes.

He sighed. “You saw her die, Katherine, but that does not mean she died. Not really. You saw what you were supposed to see, what you had to see.”

“What?” Tenn threw his head back and groaned. “Can we get a straight answer, please?”

She wrung her hands together and sat on the arm of the sofa. “Lucifer came to me.”

“What?”

“Miss ma’am,” Savannah hissed.

“Perhaps back up a step,” Everest said with a chuckle.

“Oh. Right. Okay, so I was in the infirmary, and it was late at night and Cassandra came to me. I thought she was dead, mind you, so I assumed she was a spirit. Then she told me she was really Azrael, the Archangel of Death and Fate, and asked if I would be willing to make a deal with Lucifer.”

Lots of shouting happened at that.

Libby shrugged. “I mean, I was The Devil so like . . . I wasn’t going to say no to the real devil, right?”

I snort-laughed.

“Cass left saying Lucifer would come to me . . . then he did.” She scowled. “Look, let’s not get into the details on what went down with Lucifer. I’m . . . I’m not quite ready to talk about that and I’m still more than a little confused. All I know is I never died. Lucifer took my soul so that my body would appear dead, which is what you all saw, then once my body was sent to the shore, Lucifer got it back. It’s a lot of that above my paygrade kind of shit, ya know?”

“No,” Savannah said with her thick accent that dragged a one syllable word into at least four. “Ma’am, you can’t just leave it at that. What are you now? Human? Vampire? Demon⁠—”

“Arcana, as I was before. I never died, so I never changed.”

Everyone in the house threw their hands up like they had questions. Well, except for Everest and Saber, who probably knew the answer. Even Braison and Malik had questions. I glanced around, then noticed Tegan hadn’t raised her hand. She was quiet and staring at the ground like she was trying to set it on fire.

I frowned. “You okay, Tegan?”

Everyone turned to look at her.

Thiago pointed to his own face, then tapped on his temple. “You look like you’re gonna hurt yourself.”

Warner shook his head and ran a hand over his short brown hair. “Tenn’s ex-girlfriend just came back from the dead. She’s probably got mixed emotions on that.”

Cooper scoffed. “I thought you weren’t the jealous type, Tegan?”

She didn’t answer, just stared at the ground more.