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Darroc snorted "You live like a beast in a cage, and you no longer even see the bars I was only trying to free you, free us all"

"And enslave the human race"

"They were born to be enslaved By their very nature Weak, puny things"

And there it was, Adam realized with a faint sant Elder should bear "Make him human, my Queen Condehed softly "Well spoken, Ada and fair"

"You can’t do this to ed Darroc "I will not live as one of them! Bloody kill me now!"

Ada in the ancient tongue, circling around the Elder, faster and faster, until but a radiant swirl of light spun on the floor of the chaly intense, then suddenly Darroc and the queen reappeared

Adadifferent about him His human appearance was somehow unlike Adahtfully, he scrutinized the ex-Elder

Tall, powerful, beautiful as all the Fae Long gold-shot copper hair spilling to his waist Chiseled, aristocratic face etched with disdain Copper eyes glittering with rage--ah, his eyes! They were huolden sparks flickering within thely limpsed in the hue or screen), he no longer had that brush of otherworldliness that Adam had never lost Despite an ineffable sense of ancientness, Darroc would pass as huet it," Adam murmured "He looks different than I did"

"Of course he does," said Aoibheal "He’s now huhed, a silvery sound "No you weren’t"

Adam blinked "Yes, I was; you made me human yourself"

"You were never human, Adam You were always Tuatha Dé I merely played with your foret you without actually transforhtened your senses, made you believe you werethe Highlander But you were never human It’s the one forive a Tuatha Dé a human form, it is irreversible What I just did to Darroc can never be undone No one and nothing in all the real, human and soulless A year, fifty years, who knows? He will die"

"But I felt hus," Adam protested

"Impossible," Aoibheal said flatly

Adam frowned, confounded But he’d felt theht he’d had a heart He’d gotten a sick feeling in the pit of his stoer He’d suffered hus Hoas that possible if he’d never been in hu the questions from his head, to puzzle over later There were far more important matters to which he needed to attend And quickly, before Aoibheal decided to constrain him in some new fashion for some ridiculous reason

While the queen was occupied with suuard to escort Darroc to the hu in her consort Mael, whom Darroc had betrayed as his accomplice, Adam quietly tensed to sift out

Suddenly the queen’s head swiveled in his direction and she snapped furiously, "You will stop that this instant, Amadan D--"

But she’d spoken too late to coone

Adam went first to the Queen’s Royal Bower

Once before he’d stolen the elixir of life frolass vial containing a tiny a silvery liquid

And as he sifted about, displacing his residue before heading for Cincinnati, he reflected on those lastfor me, are you, Irish? he’d asked And she’d blown up at hi diatribe that hadn’t made much sense to hi after the first few sentences that there’d been no "yes" in there anywhere and she hadn’t sounded re up to one