"Nicodemus!" Nergal called out, his breathing labored from his brief run to the front of the offices. "You have to come down and see this!"

"What ‘this' do I have to see?" Nicodemus called back from his seat at the information window.

"The Gate!" Nergal gasped out.

"I've seen the Gate before," Nicodemus responded. "Unless clerks have disappeared down there to get it on again, I don't care."

"The Gate is open!" Nergal managed to finally explain.

Nicodemus spun around on his stool, and stared slack-jawed at Nergal before scrambling out of his seat and running towards the Gate. Through the offices that had been erected around the portal to the mortal realm, the two of them hurried down to join the other office de...

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