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"Good evening, Your Majesty"
"Tina, baby," I called, duhave you been up?"
"Two hours or so," I said, trying not to sound s God had answeredup around four in the afternoon Of course, I lived in Minnesota in Deceht, but still
"But you you haven&039;t seen the paper?" Tina sat down across from me, the Trib folded under her arnored the teapot "Not yet?"
"I don&039;t like the sound of that Not one bit" Tina hesitated, and I braced myself Tina was an old vampire, ridiculously beautiful like most vampires, totally devoted to Sinclair and, to a lesser extent, me She had made Sinclair, way back when, and helped us both win our crowns more recently, protected us, lived with us (not like that, e!) she was like a uess she&039;d be a , taffy-colored hair, which she usually piled up in an efficient knot, and enorh she barely caave off an almost noble air Like Scarlett O&039;Hara&039;s mother Ellen, I&039;d never seen Tina&039;s shoulders touch the back of any chair; I&039;d never seen her even slouch She was also insanely s She was a lot more queenlike than me, to tell the truth
Anyway, my point was, she handled with aplomb the sort of situations that would drive most of us clinically insane or at least irritable And she was hesitating She was nervous
Lord, help uess you better tell me" She silently unfolded the paper and handed it to me Births and deaths I read the announcement "Huh," I said with total unsurprise "My brother was born days ago, and they didn&039;t bother to tell me How about that"
Tina was actually cringing in her chair and opened her eyes wide at my remarks "That&039;s that&039;s all? That&039;s your only coreith those people This isn&039;t exactly atypical behavior I guess I better get over to the house and pay my respects Let&039;s see we&039;re supposed to ht, but I seriously doubt Sinclair&039;s gonna mind if I reschedule that and Jess and I are supposed to have a late supper, but she won&039;t want ht"
Tina&039;s perfect, smooth forehead rinkled in surprise "Ithisit I&039;ve been keeping half an eye on the birth announceet to them today The baby&039;s early I didn&039;t think the Ant was due until January"
"She ested "It&039;s possible she miscalculated the date of her lastto kill my unholy thirst, here," I reminded her
"Sorry"
I took another look at the paper "So brother Jon You know, the last baby the Ant had was the daughter of the devil Wonder what you&039;re gonna be like?"