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as she watched, the
first stars just starting to show. A group of boys across the street called out
to her in Greek, which after a second she understood. The language wasn't
unknown to her, or at least was in the information she had.
"We're heading to the bar,
want to come?" It was bold, familiar, and the boy, who was a bit older
than she was, seemed to understand that Keeley was an unknown to him. Just
pretty enough to get his attention, was all.
"I can't today... Maybe next
time?" It never hurt to be polite, and the boy smiled and waved, as he and
his friends moved along. It was strange being approached like that on the
street, but they were doing it right, not making her feel trapped or cornered.
Just asking if she wanted to come play with them. It probably worked on
occasion, more often than wolf whistles at any rate. She fixed the boy's face
in her memory, knowing that she wasn't likely to see him again. He lived in
Tarsus's territory, and she wasn't planning to come back and hang out very
often.
Coming up with a payment to
Tarsus for the boy was a bit much, considering they didn't even know each
other.
It took a moment to step onto the
line from there, since there was interference from the wall and the shield that
it formed, behind her. Not enough to truly mess her up, but the silver lands
were empty when she looked in, and she was able to get back to the states a lot
faster, knowing the way. She landed in the front room of her old house. Mainly
because all her things were there, and she didn't have any place else to be off
to for the evening.
The house felt silent and a bit
dusty, so she wiped everything down, in case her mother popped in to visit. Sherry
had OCD and would feel a strong desire to clean the whole house if there was
even a speck of dirt anywhere. Or, to be more honest, she'd feel a need to do
it even if it sparkled, but could fight it if the place was kept up well
enough. If Zack was smart he'd have her over to his place a few times a week
for a "visit". That, of course probably was the case, since the Line
Walker had flat out told her he was going to try and get Sherry into bed. That
part was creepy, but she shut the thought down, because like it or not, her
mother wasn't hers to worry over for the time being and a bit of consensual sex
was far from the worst thing for her.
If it happened, it would be that at least. Zack was a lot of things, but he refused to take slaves or force
anyone to have sex. No, he'd work things around so you owed him things, which
got him what he wanted for the most part, and he was charming, or at least cute
enough to get women to like him. So there wasn't a lot of force involved in his
life. Not directed from him toward others. Because of Xenses.
The monster that was his father.
Her brother, so Keeley could sort of understand what Zack was feeling there.
Not that he owed the man anything, but that he wanted to survive , and
didn't think he could do that by fighting with The Defiler head to head. That
was probably even true. Still, putting him in a magical world through a book?
That probably wouldn't hurt her nephew's feelings. Darla's either, if she
explained it correctly. That part would be hard, however.
Her sister wasn't out of control,
but had been tortured by Xenses, raped, beaten and... Honestly, Keeley didn't
know exactly what all The Defiler had done to her, but it was bad enough that
hundreds of years later The Technician still wanted to kill him. Having seen
from Zack what had been done to him as a child in the fourteen months or so
that Xenses had him, it made sense that neither one of them would be all that
thrilled about her new plan to simply remove him from their world. It was
safer, and had a better chance of working, if Tarsus could be trusted, but...
Could she do that? Trust a
Greater Demon that she didn't know that well? It was pretty clear to her that
someone had been getting the insane Greater Demons to play by some rules for a
while, making
first stars just starting to show. A group of boys across the street called out
to her in Greek, which after a second she understood. The language wasn't
unknown to her, or at least was in the information she had.
"We're heading to the bar,
want to come?" It was bold, familiar, and the boy, who was a bit older
than she was, seemed to understand that Keeley was an unknown to him. Just
pretty enough to get his attention, was all.
"I can't today... Maybe next
time?" It never hurt to be polite, and the boy smiled and waved, as he and
his friends moved along. It was strange being approached like that on the
street, but they were doing it right, not making her feel trapped or cornered.
Just asking if she wanted to come play with them. It probably worked on
occasion, more often than wolf whistles at any rate. She fixed the boy's face
in her memory, knowing that she wasn't likely to see him again. He lived in
Tarsus's territory, and she wasn't planning to come back and hang out very
often.
Coming up with a payment to
Tarsus for the boy was a bit much, considering they didn't even know each
other.
It took a moment to step onto the
line from there, since there was interference from the wall and the shield that
it formed, behind her. Not enough to truly mess her up, but the silver lands
were empty when she looked in, and she was able to get back to the states a lot
faster, knowing the way. She landed in the front room of her old house. Mainly
because all her things were there, and she didn't have any place else to be off
to for the evening.
The house felt silent and a bit
dusty, so she wiped everything down, in case her mother popped in to visit. Sherry
had OCD and would feel a strong desire to clean the whole house if there was
even a speck of dirt anywhere. Or, to be more honest, she'd feel a need to do
it even if it sparkled, but could fight it if the place was kept up well
enough. If Zack was smart he'd have her over to his place a few times a week
for a "visit". That, of course probably was the case, since the Line
Walker had flat out told her he was going to try and get Sherry into bed. That
part was creepy, but she shut the thought down, because like it or not, her
mother wasn't hers to worry over for the time being and a bit of consensual sex
was far from the worst thing for her.
If it happened, it would be that at least. Zack was a lot of things, but he refused to take slaves or force
anyone to have sex. No, he'd work things around so you owed him things, which
got him what he wanted for the most part, and he was charming, or at least cute
enough to get women to like him. So there wasn't a lot of force involved in his
life. Not directed from him toward others. Because of Xenses.
The monster that was his father.
Her brother, so Keeley could sort of understand what Zack was feeling there.
Not that he owed the man anything, but that he wanted to survive , and
didn't think he could do that by fighting with The Defiler head to head. That
was probably even true. Still, putting him in a magical world through a book?
That probably wouldn't hurt her nephew's feelings. Darla's either, if she
explained it correctly. That part would be hard, however.
Her sister wasn't out of control,
but had been tortured by Xenses, raped, beaten and... Honestly, Keeley didn't
know exactly what all The Defiler had done to her, but it was bad enough that
hundreds of years later The Technician still wanted to kill him. Having seen
from Zack what had been done to him as a child in the fourteen months or so
that Xenses had him, it made sense that neither one of them would be all that
thrilled about her new plan to simply remove him from their world. It was
safer, and had a better chance of working, if Tarsus could be trusted, but...
Could she do that? Trust a
Greater Demon that she didn't know that well? It was pretty clear to her that
someone had been getting the insane Greater Demons to play by some rules for a
while, making
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