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The bolded line that grabbed his eye and refused to let go was from Blay Lock, and the subject read Follow-up

It had coht before, but he hadn’t been able to open the thing at hoht of the name made his loneliness condense into an ice-cold spear that nailed him square in the chest--and indeed, he would haveinto junkhis duty unto the laever, was not an option, not even with his eled and twisted into this heartache he was so used to--and Blay was clearly seeking a legal opinion on whatever it was

Calling the e up, it took him a minute to focus on the words that had been typed, and then the first thing he noticed was that there were no spelling rammatical issues, and perfect punctuation within the sentences But that was Blay He was a s properly and to their coh, the way he presented the facts and ical, respectful…

Saxton frowned as he read the five short paragraphs again

And then once more

Evidently, Blay’s parents had o into a house in a hue of suburbia Saxton had never been there, of course, as that had been after his time, but he had overheard Blay tell folks that it was beautiful, with a pond out in the back, and a porch, and lots of room His mahmen was not totally in love with the place, because it was too new, but she was adjusting

The problehbor of his parents’, an older fehborhood Hue in the area were pressuring the female to sell her property to theolf course and country club co in the farmhouse that she and her mate had constructed back in the late 1800s and it was all she had left of hi to Blay, she didn’t have too many years left, maybe only a decade or so, and her only as to stay where she was Her granddaughter orried about her safety, though

The hu her on the phone and through thepapers in theood six , in spite of the fact that the fe to one over to try to intercede one evening, chasing off a car, but nothing seeh to the humans

Saxton shook his head It wasn’t like the feo to the human police: Hi, I don’t exist in your world technically, but I a some trouble with trespassers Can you help ine hoorried the fa her while all she was trying to do was spend the last re where this would stop

Humans were a lesser species, for certain But they could be deadly

As Saxton began to fornore the fact that his sense of purpose was contaminated by an irrational desire to be indispensable to Blay; to solve this probleht impress his former lover

Which, naturally, in this fantasy hypothetical, led to Blay breaking off his bonded relationship with Qhuinn, leaving those two beautiful young behind, and volunteering to run away from Caldith Saxton

Yes, all of that would come from one, perfectlyoff those thugs frohbor

As he rolled his eyes at hioing to take this to Wrath and see what could be done At the very least, he could do right by that defenseless older female, and there was consolation in that

After he hit send, he swiveled around and pulled the venetian blinds up high enough so that he could see out to the snowy landscape Everything had a thick layer of powder on it, the day having been cold, according to the hulow from the other stately homes, the landscape fluoresced blue

Loneliness was just like winter, he decided Cold and pervasive, trapping you inside your own head because as outside was so inhospitable