Ivar’s eyes bugged out of his head.
“I don’t hit them when they are men, either.”
“Really? It’s immensely satisfying. Highly recommend.”
“Ruining their life is pretty fun, too,” Lucian said.
“Holy shite, Prince of Darkness, did we just bond?”
“No,” Lucian said, dryly.
“The only other teams we’ve met are yours and one other. Radames and Mazen took Lola to protect her from Lucian.”
“Good call,” Zephyr said.
“She had my blood, jackass,” Lucian snarled.
“It’s mostly worn off,” Radames said, strolling into the clearing we were sitting in while the Unseelie made their traps.
“Have any of you seen a brunette?” Mazen asked. “She was with us before. She left to use the toilet. I thought I stayed close enough to protect her, but far enough not to be a pervert, but she was just gone.”
“Erica didn’t like me,” Lola whispered, hugging herself. “She didn’t like that I’d joined their team. She kept saying I made her uncomfortable, and she didn’t want me around her. She could have run off.”
Zephyr took charge, and I was glad he did. Ivar was the leader of his group, but my group didn’t really have one. We all acknowledged we had different strengths, so if one of us was good at something, we took charge. I didn’t really know the dynamic of Radames and Mazen.
“Something dangerous is out there and could have gotten your friend. Before we let you join us, he’s Anubis, he’s Thor,and he’s Vlad the Impaler, but says he’s not violent.Everyoneis going to say what they saw in the pool and what they’ve figured out about themselves so far.”
That was a good idea. The fairies said they took history, but it wassupernaturalhistory, unlike what Khalid studied. They could give us some insight.
I wasn’t worried. He covered it quickly and well, but I caught it.
Mazen didn’t want to do this.
Sage and I were the ones who could feel people. We needed training on that. I didn’t know how to focus mine or how to interpret what I was feeling. Sage nudged me and I picked up the same thing.
Mazen didn’t want to tell anyone what he saw. Ivar took the attention off of him and went first.
“Ari saw the forest.”
I guess Lucian finally decided to help out.
“We met bear shifters. Ari smells like them. I’m pretty sure he’s the original.”
Ari beamed and I could tell he was happy with that. Ivar wrapped his arms around him and hugged him.
“That makes so much sense, my love.”
Yeah, I really wasn’t picking up violent vibes from either of these guys. They were both big enough to hurt someone like that, but my feeling was more that they knew they were massive and tried to be as non-threatening as possible because theywerecompletely harmless for the most part.
“I couldn’t see a damned thing,” Alexios said. “It was like staring into the sun and my head has been excruciating since.”
“You’re probably a sun god,” I said.
“Thanks, I’m not an idiot. I’m also Greek. Helios was the sun god, but we’ve also got Apollo, who was associated with light and then Hemera, who was goddess of daylight. I could be any one of them and I’m guessing this headache won’t go away until I figure that out.”
“Do any of them have horns?” Liam asked. “Because my forehead is all bollixed because I think I’m growing them. I can also talk to animals.”
Every single fairy drew in a breath and looked at Liam with awe and a lot more respect. They also didn’t seem to want to tell anyone what they knew.
