Awesome.
The imps also gave me a gorgeous necklace, which I haven’t taken off, and for some reason feels really special to me, although I’m not entirely sure why I have such a strong connection to it.
Which is suspicious in itself.
“What do you want, Flin?” I ask again, my eyes narrowing with suspicion.
“We just wanted to make sure that you were okay, and that you knew that we were in the woods,” he replies gently.
It kind of makes me feel bad.
Kind of.
“Did you send Ransom to Luesidious?” I ask, ignoring the fact that he’s actually being pretty nice right now. I want to make sure that we clear up everything before I even begin to think about trusting them.
The confusion that flashes across his features lets me know that he’s telling the truth when he says, “No, we did not, miss. One of your mates was sent to Luesidious?”
Again, I decide to ignore him, because I’m not entirely sure that he should have that information if he wasn’t the one who sent Ransom there.
“I have no idea what’s going on,” Raiden mutters.
“Shoot, sorry. I was just asking him about Ransom, he didn’t send him to Luesidious,” I explain.
“We can speak in his language, if that makes it easier,” Flin offers, and the other imps all nod in agreement, mumbling and smiling sweetly.
I smile slightly, because despite my previous misgivings, they are making it quite hard not to like them right now, and nod, “Yes, please.”
“Can you understand me now?” Flin asks Raiden.
Raiden nods, looking somewhat relieved that he can now follow the conversation as he says, “Yes, I appreciate that.”
Flin nods.
I pull my necklace out from under my shirt and hold it up, getting straight back into asking questions now that Raiden can understand what we’re saying. This may be the only chance that we have to get the answers that we need from them.
Any opportunity that we have to get some of our many questions answered must be taken advantage of.
Quickly, before the opportunity disappears, and more questions arise.
“What about my necklace? Why did you give it to me, and why do I get a headache when I think about it sometimes?”
Flin’s head tilts to one side curiously, his bushy eyebrows draw down over his jewel-colored eyes, as he asks, “It gives you a headache when you think about it?”
I nod, “Yes, only sometimes. It’s not giving me a headache now.”
Suddenly, his confused expression clears, and he takes a step forward, causing me to immediately raise Asael again.
Flin raises his hands, “I’m sorry miss, I should have explained first. The necklace is an extremely strong talisman that very few people can touch. It has protections on it in order to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. It appears that one of the protections that was on it has not been removed, as it should have been before it was given to you to protect. If you allow me to, then I will remove it, and you will no longer get headaches.”
I hesitate for a moment but ultimately decided that I want the headaches gone, plus, he’s been surprisingly pleasant during this meeting, and in every one we have had, apart from our very first one.
I nod and kneel down, “I don’t want to take it off. Can you do it without me needing to?”
He smiles softly, “Yes, miss. That’s no problem.”
Fortunately, the pendant seems to know that I don’t want the imp that close to my neck since it puts me in a really vulnerable position, so it makes the chain longer so I can hold it far away from me without having to take it off.
Flint pauses in his steps and then grins at me, hopping from foot to foot happily, “I knew it was the right decision to give you the necklace miss. Let me just take off the protection, and you’ll be able to begin to understand how powerful it really is.”
