“Dylan won’t be the hottest guy around anymore,” Boman mused.
“Nah, he will,” Bria said.
Jack turned. “When the fuck did you become the pageant director for the guys?”
“What?” Boman looked between Dylan and Tarian. “I know when someone is attractive, and these two are very attractive. I’m just noticing.”
“It’s not that,” Jerry drawled. “Jack is just ugly in comparison.”
Jack’s jaw dropped, scandalized. “Speak for yourself,Jerry.”
Bria and Boman laughed delightedly.
“It’s not ugliness,” someone said from over the way. Niall, standing with the rest of theFallenand listening in. “Daisy calls it having a good personality. I have agreatone, apparently. Isn’t that right, Daisy?”
A smile spread across Bria’s face. Her eyes sparkled. “Oh, I like him. Are they all like that? They’ve been awfully quiet so far.”
“They speak in their minds,” Daisy told her. “We’re going to get contraptions to help you all learn to shield your thoughts.”
“Yes, please,” Tarian murmured. “It’s disconcerting hearing how viciously everyone wanted to kill me and now how little wiggle room I have. ‘One wrong step’ seems to be on everyone’s mind…”
Bria lifted her hand. “Guilty.”
Jack lifted his as well. “Guilty.”
Jerry followed.
“Yup.” Boman nodded.
“That isn’t a natural storm,” Dylan said, watching the clouds. He looked over at Kieran, who glanced up.
“Trouble?” Kieran asked with a growl.
“No.” Tarian lifted his hand, turning to show he was talking to Kieran. “It’s natural for Faerie, which you know isn’t saying much. It’s not trouble, though. It’s a herd of stormbacks. They’re our rides.”
Lightning forkedacross the sky and plummeted to the ground as the large herd of creatures circled in their descent. Dylan directed the lightning far away from where they stood, the humans all watching curiously and the fae planning who would ride with whom.
“What’s your magic again?” Henry asked Daisy
“I cannotbelievethe Gremlin has magic!” Bria said, shaking her head. “There’ll be no stopping her. You guys are fucked, Jack. You’ll pick on her and she’ll end you.”
“She could’ve always ended us,” Jack said. “I sleep much too soundly to keep her from killing me.”
“I’ll show you when we get home,” Daisy said. “It might be better with a demo.” Certainly more surprising when she used the magic as she was attacking them.
Tarian smirked, hearing that thought.
Bria pointed at Tarian’s face, looking back and forth between him and Daisy. “She just thought something, didn’t she? Pay attention, boys. We got some facial expressions that snitch when the Gremlin is getting sneaky.”
Tarian’s expression almost cleared, but he couldn’t wrestle the smile completely away.
They are a treat,he told Daisy privately.What is a gremlin?
You’ll need to watch the movie for that one to make sense.
Ah. More movie references. I should’ve guessed.
He really should have.
