My dad moved into town like a fucking coward, leaving my sisters and me to deal with our mom and with Gil’s mother. “My parents fell out over what happened with Gil. After Gil’s death, he’d gone home to the compound to be with his family.Īnother silence-short, but long enough to register with me. He and Gil had the same father but different mothers. I’m glad for an excuse to leave.”ĭee had been raised in a commune of wizards-five families sharing magic and mates, from what I could tell. Though I was more about plain old winning. Didn’t matter if it was saving a puck from hitting the back of his net in ice hockey or saving humans and fairies from finding themselves in a war. Except that for him it wasn’t about bagging the prize, it was about making the save. It was what he did and who he was by nature. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go back, frankly, but that was a decision to make later.ĭee, like his friend, Drake, was a hunter. We were both on hiatus from Danyon and Peet now, since the thing with Gil. “Not a lot different from a Danyon and Peet job, just on another level.įunny that he had the same thought I’d had about Danyon and Peet-been there, done that. “I couldn’t very well say no when Drake had already said yes.” He paused. “The envoy asked for both of us,” he said with a shrug. Not because I read his mind, but because I knew who he was. “And you’re going with him,” I said, knowing it for a fact.

I’d told him more times than I could count that if he didn’t want me in his head, he needed to tell me what he was thinking. He’d feel the tickle inside his skull and know I was there. I reached into his mind for his thoughts.

He was silent through the telling, listening with an intensity so strong I felt it like a comfortable weight in the air around me. I told him everything from the moment my parents had come banging on my door this morning until now. A porch light lit the bright red back door of his parents’ house. A large tree was behind him but I couldn’t tell what kind in the gloom. Dee was sitting outside on the ground-likely soaking up energy from the soil.

The chalice and the blade break down