"Fair enough," Avery says with a half-shrug. "They do owe me, after all. Even if I'm pretty sure they'll regret it." He gets that it's the end of the world and all, but why they would want him to go so far as to fetch him is anyone's guess.

"Anyway! Those daemons aren't going to murder themselves!" he decides cheerfully, and circles around Ekke once before leading the way deeper into the fray.