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"No I’m not," Gabby snapped instantly Defensively Stupidly Oh, that was good, O’Callaghan, you dolt!

Snapping her mouth shut so hard her teeth clacked, she unlocked the car door and scra the key in the ignition, she threw the car into reverse

And then she did another stupid thing: She glanced at it again She couldn’t help it It si toward her, its expression one of pure astonishaped blankly back Was a fairy capable of being astonished? According to O’Callaghan sources, they experienced no emotion And how could they? They had no hearts, no souls Only a fool would think soher conscience lurked behind those quixotic eyes Gabby was no fool

It was alht for her

With a startled jerk she caas pedal to the floor

Darroc, Elder of the Tuatha Dé Danaan’s High Council, stood atop the Hill of Tara on the Plain of Meath A cool night breeze tangled long copper hair shot with gold around a face that was exotically beautiful but for the scar ht easily have concealed with glamour, but chose not to He wore it to reet

Ireland, once ours, he thought bitterly, staring out at the lush, verdant land

And Tara--long ago called Teamir and before that christened Cathair Crofhind by the Tuatha Dé thelory of his race, was now a tourist stop overrun by huuides who told stories of his people that were abjectly laughable

The Tuatha Dé had arrived on this world long before human myths purported they had But what could one expect froan and sputtered to an end in the merest blink of a Tuatha Dé’s eye?

When first we found this world, we had so much hope Indeed, the name they’d chosen for Tara--Cathair Crofhind--meant " ’twas not amiss"; their choice of this world to be their new hoiously amiss Man and Tuatha Dé had proved inco this fertile world that bore so many similarities to their own, and his race, once majestic and proud, now hid in places hu only recently learned to harness the power of the atom, humans would not present a serious threat to the Tuatha Dé for some time

Yet time passed swiftly for his kind, and then would his people be forced to flee again?

Darroc refused to live to see such a day