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Ansin was very different fro He liked expensive suits, expensive cars, and private jets King enjoyed the finer things ive a shit about any of that

When we pulled up to the airport in Mianition, and toldcounters

“Are you just going to leave your bike there?” I asked

“Yes”

“But they’ll tow it,” I pointed out

“The bike isn’t mine I took it”

What? I caught up to hi to get in line

“You’re cutting in front of all these people,” I hissed

He turned and stared old and black eyes “I’m two thousand years old, little treasure, and like I said, I don’t ask permission”

“And apparently you steal”

“Material things are et that” He turned to the airline employee and asked for two tickets, first class to Heathrow She smiled, punched in some infored

I stood there withopen “How did you do that?”

Ansin handed me my ticket “Power, Jeni”

I followed hi—and we boarded the waiting plane ht; we’d just made it on time

“How do you make everyone just do what you want?” I asked quietly, settling into my first-class seat It was pretty is It felt wrong

“Don’t telluse that trick” He re his tanned, extremely jacked arms, which were covered in linear scars They looked like they’d been cut with knives repeatedly in a crisscross pattern

Again, I wanted to ask what had happened to hi he’d either tell me to fuck off or the story would be horrific

“No Ido mind tricks, but not like you”

“Not like me, how?”

“King tries not to be noticed He’s subtle when he uses his powers in public You seem to—”

“Not give a fuck? It’s because I don’t, my little treasure” He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, just like I’d seen King do He was gearing up for so “Besides, what can these people do to me that hasn’t already been done?”

Now I had to ask I couldn’t resist “What’s been done to you?”