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I searched for "psychic draining" and watched the ticker bar fill on my screen I downed the rest of beer nuet another before the page drovebar

The list made me frown Wraiths didn’t explain the sex issue, unless one somehow became corporeal That didn’t make sense Wraiths werea lot more victims Baku fed psychically but focused on dreams They could drive a person insane but they wouldn’t kill thele h they had been extinct for over a hundred and sixty years, everything else fit Except for the fact that they weren’t known for draining people to the point of death Succubi were listed too The female version of the incubus could only produce fe their food

I scrolled down the list, and saw tooother than the wraiths, baku, incubi, and succubi were known for being powerful enough to actually kill so I clicked in the "search within results" box and typed "sex" The enter key made a loud click in my otherwise silent house Rather than pull rabbed another beer When I got back to the laptop, there were only two species left on the list

I rubbed my eyes, not surprised, but I’d hoped for some beastie out there I hadn’t heard of that fit the bill Nothing else even came close Not a creature anyone knew about, anyway Every otherworlder species that existed, now or in the past, claimed its share of space in the OWID As the words "incubus" and "succubus" flashed atto convince anyone that a succubus was running around killing wo it look like her victims had been killed by a man, or that incubi weren’t extinct after all

A loud knock startled me I snapped the laptop shut and h the peephole h

"Well hello, beautiful," Aidan said when I pulled the door open He held up a six-pack of beer and waved the bottles hypnotically ata bottle as he passed, and then followed hi wethe answer The paranorht ship

"No, your teah What did you find out?" He picked up the bottle opener I’d left on the table, and held his palave him my beer and he flipped the lid off, then handed it back tohis own

"Our local sensitive checked out the most recent vic She was drained of her life force Astrid’s calling that COD" I gestured at the laptop "I’s that can kill that way, but only a couple fit"

"Let uess: succubi and their incubi cousins"

I took a sip of my beer "Yup"

He hesitated "Look, I know this is a little rude to ask, but…your banshee powers, do they extend to the visions?"

I narrowed ht coot visions of people dying before it happened that I’d be in this line of work? Hell, if I was a true banshee, do you think I’d be living with hued, obviously unco shot, but I had to ask"

"Do you kno banshee society operates?"

"Probably not as well as you I know that they can usually see when so to die And their screams are fatal"

"That’s true--to a certain extent Their screams can kill and, unfortunately, most banshees scream when they’re hit with a vision That’s why they live away frorinned "How do they, you know, make little banshees?"

"Some journey out to mate with humans They only produce female children, and only keep the ones who inherit their full range of abilities The rest are discarded as half-breeds"

"Discarded?"

"Oh yes," I said bitterly "Literally Like trash"

"I’m surprised law enforcement around their reservations allows them to journey into hu"

"It’s not legal, but they’re difficult to police I mean, I wouldn’t want to try to stop a full-blooded banshee Plus, they look like hu the reservation line, they can be hard to ID" I rested the cold beer against my cheek What was this? My third? No wonder I was so chatty

"So what happened with you?" Aidan ed "My dad was in Ireland for the suh school and wanted to see his hoe He e He stayed, and so did she He doesn’t talk about it h to leaveme into the ocean"