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"Skaros?" I scrunched up htly "It’s actually a sion where a castle once stood I’d like to go back one day It’s kind of like our birthplace, I guess"

"How many of you landed there?"

"A couple dozen, or at least that’s what Matthew has told us I don’t re" His lips pursed "We stayed in Greece until ere around five, and then we came to America There were twenty or so of us, and as soon as we arrived, the DOD was there"

I couldn’t iine what that , to be froht into the hands of a foreign governlanced at ood, Kitten We didn’t know that humans were aware of us All we did knoas there were Arue surprise to us Apparently they knew about us froot here They rounded up hundreds who had arrived in A the pillow to uys?"

"They kept us in a facility out in New Mexico"

"No shit" My eyes ide "Is Area 51 the real deal?"

He eyedinto his eyes

"Wow" I let that one sink in All those crazies trying to get into the co had been around a while"

"My fao, but that doesn’t hed at my expression "Anyway, they kept us there for the first five years They--the DOD--had been assi the Luxen for years We learned a lot about hu that time, and ere…deeo Usually with an older Luxen who could take care of us Since Matthew had a relationship with us, ere placed with hiuys would’ve been only ten years old Did you live with Matthew until recently?"

"Believe it or not, we one to college We develop a lot faster, our brains and whatnot I’raced his face "Matthew lived with us until we moved here At fifteen, ere pretty much adults The DOD set us up with a house and money"

Well, that probably explained part of our national debt "But what about people asking questions--looking for your parents?"

Dae "There’s always an older Luxen we can pass off for our parent, or we canwe try to avoid because of the trace"

Shakingtheir own lives since they were fifteen, with just Matthew checking in on them I shouldn’t be so shocked My own life was sort of that ithme in his intense hen I looked at hi--o "No You don’t have to Ito do, you can stay or whatever…" Or I needed to just shut up

His eyes helddeveloped in azeon the coffee table "I see sorinned "Yeah, Moot it for me I’ve been without since…well, since then"

He scratched his cheek "Yeah, I didn’t apologize for that, did I?"

"No" I sighed Back to aard conversation And not only that, I was re just how I’d lost my last laptop

Daemon cleared his throat "That’s never happened before, the whole blowing-stuff-up part"

My cheeks heated as I stared at ain "It happened with Dawson, in a way It was how Bethany found out" There was a pause and I heldout with her and lost control Turned full Luxen while kissing her"

"Yikes That had to be…"

"Aard?"

"Yeah, aard"

Silence fell between us, and I couldn’t help but wonder if ere thinking the sa Skin unco safe to talk about "Dee said you guys had moved a lot How many different places?"

"We stayed in New York for a while, then we oes on here, you haven’t lived in South Dakota Then wehere I was always the one who provoked the change in scenery It’s like I was looking for so, but none of those places had it"

"I bet New York was your favorite place"

"Actually, it’s not" A bit of his teeth showed in his slight sinia?"

"It’s not that bad There are a lot of us here More so than any other place I have friends who I can be myself with--a whole community, really That’s i the pillow to my chest, I rested my head on it "Do you think Dee is happy here? She makes it sound like she can’t leave Like, ever"