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sidhe, brownies, trolls, gnomes, and some dwarves down from the

mountains They had toasted Cian’s health and the twins’ e

Everyone spoke of Beck with great fondness, and Meg had learned a

lot about her ard husband He had saved many of the people of

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the village at great cost to himself For years after the civil war, he

had worked hard to settle refugees from his home plane

It would have been very easy for the king to settle on the Vampire

plane The Dellacourts were a wealthy family ould have taken

in Beck and Cian He could have lived in luxury, and no one would

have blamed him Instead, at seventeen, he decided to establish a

village on a safe plane to give his people a home

Beck was their protector Without him, the Fae would have

dispersed andon their own