Kill Monsters, Get Rich by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2022-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Despite Kylah’s warning, I couldn’t deny that I was excited to see more of what the leisurely side of the magical world was like. The bars we’d been to had been pretty similar, but what would a club like Pandemonium be like? Even regular human clubs could get pretty weird.

Carmen and Asami came back from the grocery store, and we made lunch, which was to say that I made lunch while Carmen watched me and quizzed Asami and Kylah about more faerie lore.

“He makes the best meatballs,” Carmen told the other women matter-of-factly. “Like, I missed him when he was away in the army or whatever, but I mostly missed his cooking.”

I rolled my eyes at her but couldn’t quite keep the smile from my face.

“Love you, too, Monkey,” I said as I began rummaging around the cupboards for oregano. “So, are there any other big no-no’s for dealing with fae?”

“Mm, not really,” Kylah said with a shrug. “Just try to be polite. If a faerie believes you’re slighting them, they won’t let it slide. So just be on your best behavior.”

“Out of interest, if they do end up feeling offended, what would they do to… get even?” Carmen asked.

“Generally, Seelie fae won’t kill humans,” the blonde said carefully, but she winced, which already didn’t bode well. “But that doesn’t mean much. There’s one story of a human man who was taken as a lover by a member of the Seelie court, but he fell in love with a human woman and ran away. In response, his old faerie lover tracked him down and plucked out his eyes, so his gaze would never wander again.”

“Jesus.” Carmen grimaced. “Best not to fuck with faeries, then?”

“Sounds like it’s just best not to fuck faeries,” I said, and I laughed when my sister groaned at my bad pun.

Kylah and Asami didn’t laugh, however.

“Refusing a faerie if they proposition you is similarly dangerous,” Asami warned. “Honestly, any time you have to deal with them… you really can’t do more than simply hope for the best.”

At that, I couldn’t help but look over at Kylah and wonder how she and Kegan had… happened. Had their father fallen in love with a faerie, or had he simply been unable to refuse a creature so much more powerful than him?

From how Kylah had looked when I’d asked about her father, it was clear their relationship was strained. Was that why? Did he look at his children and see only reminders of being a faerie woman’s plaything? And for that matter, did Kylah and Kegan know their mother at all? Did she care about them? Had they even met her, or had they been dropped on their father’s doorstep in the middle of the night, like Tristan in Stardust?

I was glad she had Kegan. Just as I surely would have gone crazy without Carmen, Kylah surely would be much less well-adjusted if she’d had to put up with all her family drama alone. And that wasn’t even taking into account the bullshit she got from the other Eyes, like Flora.

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