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"You found a souvenir?" he asked, gesturing toward the ax
"It’s a long story"
"And one I want to hear Tell me what happened," he said "Did you destroy the threat?"
"No," I said "Well, maybe yes, if you mean Phaedra She’s dead"
Anyan sucked in a breath "Dead? Are you sure?"
"Yep Iross"
"Wow You didn’t…"
"Nope, no tentacles I did kinda kick her ass, though"
"Good for you," he said and grinned "And what about the labrys?"
"You knohat it is!"
"Of course And I can teach you to use it"
I sighed happily, snuggling closer against him "Of course you can, clever puppy"
"May I ask how you acquired it?"
"Ait, and now I’hest said "You are, are you?"
"Yep," I replied, my voice thick with exhaustion "Butmartyred and all of that"
"So an ancient creature made you its chaood, now It wanted il that could free it, so it didn’t have to worry It scoots around in our minds, I think, so it doesn’t need its body anymore, anyway"
"Scoots around in our minds?" Anyan asked, clearly uncomfortable with that idea
"Don’t worry," I said "It’s not all judgy and hu "So it’s no longer a threat?"
"It was never really a threat It is, genuinely, nice It didn’t even need to be imprisoned The Alfar just did that so--"
"I know," he interrupted "We all saw that part The creature must have wanted us to know the truth"
"How far did the visions go?" I asked
"Just around Rockabill Caleb called Ryu and a few other contacts, and no one outside the to anything"
"Did the humans?" I asked, horrified, and then I realized how inaccurate that question was
"If you ical brothers and sisters, then yes They did But we’ve glamoured everyone to think that some addled hipsters fro that story to cover the possessions, too"
"Who came up with that? It’s terrible," I said
"As, ironically enough"
"And hipsters," I affirmed "Anyway, so you know that we’re all just humans? But like mutated or whatever?"
He smiled at me "I’ve always had a hunch"
And then I reht after my mom was murdered when he told me that I had to stay huht he’dall philosophical and hippie-dippie, but he was being literal
"How’d you know?" I asked