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Anyan looked around at the other supes as if he were embarrassed

"Well, Jane," Iris said, "to be honest, we’reon conjecture And by conjecture, I mean a nursery rhyme An Alfar nursery rhyme"

"A nursery rhyme," I said, unimpressed

Iris nodded and started in on as obviously the little ditty in question:

"Four locks for power,

Four locks for force

Four locks for the old one,

Whose time has run its course"

As she spoke, istered my noni them all

And in the darkness bind them"

My eyes widened and I nearly fell off my barstool until Anyan barked "Iris!" I’d been had

The succubus giggled, looking so like her old self I nearly did a happy dance, but then she forced a look of contrition on her face

"Sorry Here’s the real ending:

Unlock the crystals,

Unlock the land,

Unlock the water,

And with it take a stand"

I frowned "That’s it? Froot Rockabill?"

Anyan shook his head "No, Jane There’sfor the source of this legend for centuries… It’s like our Holy Grail, or Fountain of Youth"

"Our Lost City of Gold," Caleb rumbled, helpfully, in case er understand analogies unless they were given in threes

"But how did you land on Rockabill?" I asked

"It ," Anyan replied "After all, why do you think this place has always drawn so many of our kind? And didn’t you ever wonder why Nell is so powerful? Gno, but Nell is ridiculously so"

The others thought about that, as Sarah Nahual nodded

"Both Marcus and I becah that we both noticed We thought it was our partnership"

"And why did you move here?" Anyan asked "Why did any of you h, and I felt I had to stay in the area I just liked it here I couldn’t stay in Rockabill itself, as there weren’t enough people to feed off… but I wanted to be close, for some reason"

Both Sarah and Marcus nodded, as if Iris had summarized how they felt Minus the people to feed off, obviously

"Yeah, it’s like I felt at horew up," Amy replied "I only came out here to pick up some killer weed a friend had told me about, and I just knew I had to stay"

As

"I was born here, because my mother showed up But why Rockabill?" That question had always bothered me, ever since I’d been toldto make sense "I mean, if she just wanted a… a o My dad was one of like five fertile men in all of Rockabill at the ti, or too… probleo to a place with more chances to find a baby daddy? Yet she came here"