(eng) Nicole Peeler - Jane True 01 by Tempest Rising

Author:Tempest Rising [Rising, Tempest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

We drove out to Rockabill Bluffs, overlooking the Old Sow, so that Ryu could read the file and have a think.

The tiny trunk of the Porsche was filled with packages from Iris’s, and I still felt a little weird about that fact. I hadn’t wanted Ryu to buy me anything and I certainly wasn’t comfortable accepting such expensive gifts. But he’d said that he was doing it as much for Iris’s sake as mine—that he owed her as part of the information game they’d played and he’d bill it to the company anyway. So I let him buy me the pants outfit, the kimono dress, and their matching accessories, wandering away to look around the shop when she rang everything up so I didn’t see what everything actually cost. I bet each pair of those red-soled shoes cost at least a hundred dollars. So you needn’t worry, my sweets, I thought down at my battered old Converse. Mommy will never replace you. All joking aside, Ryu had even wanted to buy me the gown, but that’s where I drew the line. I didn’t need a gown in Rockabill, no matter how beautiful it was.

Iris had also thrown in the sweater I was currently wearing, since Ryu had laid waste to my own. It was a lovely cream-colored V-neck made of real cashmere. I’d tried to talk her out of it, but she was insistent. I could tell she felt really guilty about me being the subject of Peter’s research, which was silly since she hadn’t even known who I was.

When we got to the bluffs we parked a little way from the edge. Ryu rummaged around the packed trunk until he managed to extricate his picnic blanket and a bottle of wine. The mere sight of the blanket made me a little hot under the collar, but Ryu’s face wasn’t exhibiting any signs of erotic life. In fact, when he lit a little mage light that tagged along behind us like a faithful terrier, he still looked really pissed off.

“Ryu?” I asked hesitantly, as we spread the blanket and sat down. “Who’s Nyx?”

Ryu scowled. If I thought he’d looked angry before, he now looked positively apoplectic.

“Nyx is an absolute piece of shit,” he said, unhelpfully. Then he seemed to collect himself, and his voice took on the “tour guide to the supernatural” tone I’d gotten so used to at this point. “In our world, the Alfar rule,” he began. “They’re the oldest, and rarest, of our kind.” He stopped and thought for minute, as if unsure how to continue. Finally, he started again. “We don’t study ourselves, the way humans do. We don’t try to trace our origins or examine our past for the keys to our present. But some of us have our own theories as to how we came into being. We know that our kind has been around for a very long time—far longer than humans—and that in the beginning we were all the same. But, and this is just one theory, mind you, at some point we began to… interfere with ourselves.

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