Cairax bound vs unbound

“Look, it’s your demon, right? If I can beat it alone, Cerberus and I can go out there and—”
“You didn’t beat Cairax, George. You beat me.”
“No, I think it was—”
“No.” Max shook his head. “What you beat was a shadow. That was Cairax Murrain starved, handcuffed, gagged, and shoved in a sack. It’s like punching Mike Tyson when he’s asleep. And even then, the only way you beat him was taking the Sativus off and turning him back into me.”
The sorcerer turned to gesture through the gate. “What’s out there now is the real thing. No psychic chains, no magical restraints, no limits whatsoever. None. It’s at full strength and it’s seriously pissed off that I had it bound for over two years. Way, way more pissed than I thought it was going to be, and that’s really saying something. So trust me when I say you do not want to go out there. Out there, you’ve got a life expectancy of two minutes if you’re lucky.”

Excerpt From Ex-Communication, pg 352-353
Peter Clines
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