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That information could remain under wraps for a while
Lyra waited for hi, but when all he did was sloander around ide eyes, she gave up
"Jaden, seriously They’re trees Thrillsville Unless they have soht want to refocus"
Lyra found she actually looked forward to whatever biting response he would coe her in verbal warfare except for Siot tired of her sometimes But when Jaden turned his head to look at her, she didn’t get what she was hoping for Instead, his expression was so full of honest wonder in the pit of her stoht, frustrated that she couldn’t just banish them Between this and the weirdness in the kitchen, she was starting to worry this was going to be a trend
"Sorry, got a little sidetracked," he said, then grinned It lit up his entire face, and as already darkly co
"I hadn’t realized how long I’d been away frorounds? You wantset?"
Jaden chuckled, a soft, war Lyra associated with vampires But then so far, so was Jaden
"No," he said "I’d just forgotten how nice it is not to be closed in Cities can get claustrophobic I mean, I’m used to it now, but it was hard at first Before, I was just a--"
He stopped short, shook his head with a rueful smile Lyra, her curiosity piqued, hoped he would finish Why had it been hard at first? Where was he from? Who had he been? Not that it et that a couple hundred years ago, Jaden had been fully human, no doubt with a very different life planned than the one he had now
"You were a country boy?" she asked He hesitated, looking uncertain, but then nodded
"Soh… I’ve been everywhere" He shoved his hands in his jacket pockets and hunched slightly, what Lyra was already conize as his defensive position He didn’t seeo into it Maybe she wouldn’t, either, Lyra thought, if she’d lost everything and had to start fro people was not a natural ability of hers But Lyra found herself trying to put Jaden back at ease even before she really realized what she was doing
"Well, this isn’t the English countryside, but it’s got its points I wouldn’t want to be anywhere but here," she said
A ghost of a srin he’d worn only o He was a , the next wistful He kept surprising her
Yet another thing she liked when she shouldn’t
"I know the feeling," Jaden said siears coins seeht Why don’t you start by explaining this mystical process tois about"
Lyra nodded, trying to be grateful that things had veered away from the personal and back to the professional… if that’s what this operation was
"Okay Walk with me" She closed the distance between them with a few steps, and the two of the landscape of the park The young green of the trees and grass was vibrant even in the scattered light of the wrought-iron la the scenery The air s
She pointed off to her right, where the ground sloped down into a long, flat area White soccer goals rose, ghostly, froround "There’s the soccer field We don’t use it for the Full Moon Feast every s… a little obvious But it’s always been used for Provings"
Jaden snorted "Which isn’t obvious at all What do you plan to do with all the hu on? Lock them in their closets?"
It was Lyra’s turn to chuckle "There aren’t any huht Plus they can sense us Subconsciously, I guess But humanity’s survival instinct see into a town full of their natural predators Hunting them may be outlawed now, but it wasn’t always that way… and so in theht of her cousin and his sycophants in the pack, wolves anted to turn the clock backward a few hundred years He’d never said he wanted to hunt humans, of course… that would be the kiss of death for his aspirations nohe was… but his attitude about thele" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>