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He forged ahead, only his peeping fangs betraying his internal struggle to keep on task "Right, well, there have always been two philosophies, shall we say, regarding the relationship between our kind and huside humans--not entirely separate and not entirely equal--but peacefully The other philosophy preaches a more ‘demon overlord’ approach to the wholeand coan are of the forht with theht we should enslave huhtful position as their natural leaders The as long--it lasted a few hundred years Eventually, I was old enough to choose sides, and I chose Orin and Morrigan’s That’s where we get to Nyx"
Ryu turned over to lie on his back, his arfrom the source
"Nyx is my cousin, but she’s older than me by a few hundred years When the war started, she was firmly on the side of the ‘crush hu but lunch But she’s also an extremely capable political animal, so when the tide started to turn in favor of Orin and Morrigan she did what any two-faced bitch worth her salt would do She sold herself and her copious knowledge of the enemy to our side for the price of her life and a position in the new Court Where, believe it or not, she’s made quite a name for herself People think that because they know she can’t be trusted, they understand how to deal with her Which totally underesti to sink us all into some seriously profound doo-doo
"So that’s Nyx, in a nutshell," he concluded, sighing I could see that what he’d just toldtrouble in little Rockabill The disturbing nature of the idea that Jakes had been cataloging halflings was suddenly very evident, and for the first tiht, I confronted the idea that Peter had been collecting my own data for his little inventory Should have left the little shit in the Sow
"What do you think Nyx wants with Peter’s catalog?" I asked
Ryu exhaled noisily, scrubbing his hands through his hair in what I’d co extreme concentration "I have no idea," he said, at last "But it can’t be good"
He rubbed a hand over his face and then sat up to take a mouthful of wine He drank slowly, and then very deliberately corked the bottle and set it aside I was lying onI’d just been told Ryu’s world sounded incredibly complicated And while I didn’t know shit from Shinola, I feared that, because of Peter Jakes, I was involved whether I wanted to be or not
Ryu had opened Peter’s case file, and I sat up to see as inside In the pocket labeled "ister of nahteen in all, with the first twelve of them crossed off I shivered when I saw that "Jane True--Rockabill, ME" ritten underneath the last name that had been crossed off
There were thirteen sections of the accordion file that had been labeled, and the names on the labels accorded with the twelve names that had been crossed off, with one for me Naturally, we started at mine
Written in s about me There were my parents’ names, their status--"selkie" and "human"--and their current whereabouts I stifled my disappointment when I saw next to my mother’s name the word "location unknown" There was my physical description, address, place of work, and even a list of"powers" ritten "Manipulation of water eleed a long look, and he put the contents of my personal file back into the folder Then we took a brief look through the other files, but they all contained sier to snoop and see what the other halflings out there were like, so I took the file ed through the rest of the folder Then he pulled out froie It had been stuck in an unlabeled section and folded slanced at the folder
I kept reading about Joe, as the product of a ht years old, and lived in Shreveport, Louisiana He had never met his father and had no idea of the man’s true nature He had very weak control over earth eleh for contact to have been necessary Mr Gonzalez apparently just thought he had an unusually green thu the file back into the folder while Ryuthe naood"