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I giggled. Oh & I am so sorry, but yes, with flying colors I love ancient artifacts.
Your turn.
He smiled softly at me. Perhaps you will come by and allow me to show them to
you?
Now that is a deal. My dad was a private collector & My voice trailed away, and I
felt my teeth grind. I couldn t think of my dad without thinking of Gaiscioch, and
thinking of Gais put me into kill zone .
I know quite a lot about you already, and we ll learn more about each other,
hopefully not all in one night! He reached across the table and took up my fingers,
which were tapping the saltshaker. He steadied them, put the tips to his lips, and kissed
each finger individually. I didn t want to stop him.
Then I pulled myself together. No & oh no & not ready for this. As soon as I was
able to without offering downright offense, I pulled my hand gently out of his warm hold.
One dark brow went up over his eye as he scanned my face, but he said nothing and
turned instead to look around the room. I like your choice & this is a wonderful little
pub.
I laughed. Not that we have much choice. The other three pubs aren t half as nice, but
when my dad was around, we frequented all four pubs, switching to give each one
business & Dad was like that.
He sounds like he was a good man, Aaron said softly. And I am sorry for your loss,
Radzia &
He had said he already knew a lot about me, and I had guessed he had heard all there
was to hear from the grapevine that traveled between the employees of the estates in and
about MacDaun Village yes, the village was named after our ancestor, a feudal warlord
and Druid priest.
I acknowledged this with a wave of my hand, and then I couldn t help spitting out to
this total stranger, He was murdered & in cold blood.
So I was told. He sighed heavily. The murderer & never found?
Never found, I said, realizing that I had to get off this subject. I smiled and waved at
some acquaintances that were nodding my way, and then the blood in my body stopped
flowing as I went rigid!
Drones, very much like the one I had recently killed, were coming into the pub. There
were four of them, each hideous, each in human Glamour, yet even in their human
Glamour they were revolting, lecherously surveying the room for victims &
I tried not to look at them. I didn t have my weapon. What an idiot I was. I d left it at
home. Yes, but to be fair to myself, I d never expected Unseelies to frequent our village.
The pickings for them here so much less than in Inverness. What then? Spies for
Gaiscioch? Spying on me, or was it something else something that had to do with a
portal?
I knew there was a way to call my weapon to me, but Danté had said I wasn t ready
for that yet, and he didn t want me sending it off into space somewhere out of reach.
So, I was weaponless, and the beasts were on the prowl. Just great.
The disgusting drones were leering at a few of the young women on the small dance
floor, and I wanted to barf. One of the girls gave the drone closest to her the okay
come and get it sign.
I was astonished. I mean they may have been in human Glamour, but they were still
ugly. The drones had to be using a spell expelling some sort of aphrodisiac or
transmitting on some kind of enchantment wavelength.
What was I going to do? I had to do something. Could I negate their spell? No, I
would need to know what sort of spell they were using &
Could I send the girls off to another dimension and then retrieve them later? It was not
impossible to do, but there would be consequences for the girls. It was one of the Dark
Magic spells I had learned, but it did not always end well. The girls could lose
memory & be troubled for many months with nightmares no. That was not the answer.
There was only one answer. I had to kill the drones.
I excused myself from Aaron, went to the girls room, and shifted home. I retrieved
my dad s (though always meant for me) death weapon and shifted back to the pub, only
this time I was concealed by the Féth Fiada and would be invisible to all human
occupants at the pub. I enacted a concealment spell that encompassed each drone as I
approached them.
The drones would see through the invisibility cloak, but not until it was too late &
I was behind the first drone before any of them knew what was happening. I sliced
through him easily, and before he hit the floor, I consigned him to another dimension.
The other three turned and looked right at me, and they were not happy!
* * *
In another dimension, I watched Z and mumbled out loud, What is she doing with
that human fool? As there was no one present to answer me, the words seemed to echo
back at me. I was in a barren desert looking in at Z and her new friend at the pub.
He thinks a great deal of himself for a human. He thinks she will be an easy
conquest. Again, I found that I was mumbling to myself. It was difficult for me to
conceive of Z being an easy target, and that put a grin on my face.
I listened to their mundane conversation and was, in fact, being bored out of my gourd
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