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"I thought we&039;d get a good ju for your spirit This is Eve Wow, nice roo you I&039;m sorry

There wouldn&039;t have been time for the food I was interested in , he answered with a s

Oh, that is not playing fair"That&039;s my husband, Kristoff"

"Siobhan Gullstein This is Eve Voorhees, who is the necro out a hand She was as tall as Kristoff, freckled, with short sandy blond hair and wire-frahtforward and earnest She looked absolutely normal, not in the least as if she were the sort of person who raised the dead for a living "Siobhan says you knohere the essence is?"

"Not exactly, but I knohere the village was before it washed into the ocean"

"I see" Eve had a slight accent-Dutch, I assuh her manner wasn&039;t as friendly and open as Siobhan&039;s, I liked her She hesitated aher lip before she continued "I don&039;t normally do this I may be old-fashioned, but I like to honor my commitments, and I don&039;t usually betray a client in this manner"

"I absolutely understand, and I would never ask you to do so except this is really an eency"

She nodded "Siobhan told ed to you, but his soul was taken by the Ilargi who hired ree that it is right to take the soul of another"

"I&039;lad you feel that way," I said, relieved "Naturally, ill pay you the going rate for lich raising Er what is that?"

She na for a moment

Kristoff made a face and pulled out his checkbook

Thanks, Boo

"Excellent," Eve said, folding the check and tucking it away "Shall we go?"

"Sure," Siobhan answered

"I willfor the door

"She left the car parked illegally, and is worried about it getting towed You have no idea how on top of those sorts of things the Icelanders are," Siobhan toldour coats as he disappeared into our rooeous," Siobhan said in a whisper, taking a few steps to the side so she could watch Kristoff gather up his coat and hat "I love men with cleft chins! It&039;s so sexy! I bet you suck it, huh?"

I blinked at her in surprise

"Sorry," she said with a little giggle "Didn&039;tIt&039;s just that you didn&039;t tell me you were married to a fashion ht Aren&039;t you" I gestured vaguely toward the door through which Eve had just left

"Oh, I am That is, I like both sides ofas Kristoff ca so odd? Kristoff asked a few ed froht even in the shadow of his hat as they searched the street

Because Siobhan just asked me if I sucked your chin

He shot ht to proceed

She thinks you&039;re gorgeous

Ah

"Which way?" Eve asked as Kristoff held the back door for me to cli wheel, while Siobhan was poking at the GPS unit

"It&039;s broken," she said, waving toward it "So we&039;re going to have to do this the old-fashioned way"

"This is the wrong et " Siobhan turned and reached back between Kristoff andhis hat off in the process

Kristoff ducked away fro in on his side

"Sorry I er"

Are you OK? Did you get burned?

I grabbed the hat she held out and gave it back to Kristoff, who got it adjusted so he could sit up

Barely I&039;m fine

Eve watched us with curious eyes via the rearview mirror

Oh, crap You think they know? I turned in e area behind us "I&039;ll get the map"

Siobhan took them from me with a look at her partner "Er you&039;re a Dark One?" she asked Kristoff

"Is there a problem with that?" he asked with absolutely no expression on his face

You&039;re really good at that I bet you clean up at poker

"No, I&039;m just a bit surprised Eve" She waved toward the other woman "Eve has alanted to ht in her eyes "I&039; a thesis on the relationship between the otherworld and mortal literary conventions I&039;d love to talk to you about Dark Ones versus vampires in the popular culture"

"Everyone loves a hunky varinned for a moment, then sat back, but she positively hummed with excitement

"I&039;ve only seen one Dark One before, and never up close Oh, aze uys are ave Kristoff&039;s leg a possessive pat "And yes, I am tempted to suck his chin That cleft drives me wild, too"

Kristoff went into e was apparently al that way You love it What man wouldn&039;t like random female adoration?

I am only interested in adoration from one person

I withdrew irlfriend, Angelica, or to , where he held them

Warmth pooled low inback in her seat, although I noticed she lowered her sun visor so that she could see him in the mirror "I don&039;t blame you one bit Man alive, a Dark One and his Beloved That&039;s so awesouys meet?"

A heavily edited version kept Siobhan occupied until we had reached the se south of the town I had stayed at two months before It wasn&039;t until we had climbed down a rocky, steep slope from a tiny stone church that sat atop a cliff that she finally turned her attention to the reason ere there

"There are several essences here," Siobhan said as she wandered up and down the rocky shoreline, dashing first here, then there, like a shorebird on the trail of a tasty ht here," she added, having taken off her shoes and socks and rolled up the legs of her pants to wade into the water

"Do you see a horse?" I asked, eyeing the water I knew it must be very cold, and I didn&039;t particularly want to have to swinar who died with him They were very close"