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long time.”
    “Yes,” Kaisa said, speaking for the first time. “We knew you still had to be alive since you’re a hybrid, a true immortal, like us.” She motioned to Torger.
    “How did you know about me?”
    “Our parents told us.”
    “Parents?”
    “Kaisa means our adoptive parents,” Torger said. “Our father was one of the hunters who came to investigate the fire. He found the remains of our birth parents. He also found Kaisa and I lying in the ashes of our birth mother. He wrapped us in his shirt and brought us home to his wife. They had no children of their own.”
    “Our parents had known our birth parents and you,” Kaisa said, jumping back into the conversation. “We were raised on stories of our true family. How they’d come from the gods, and how different they’d been.” She met Brolach’s gaze. “When they couldn’t find your body, they thought you might have escaped and hid somewhere. All the hunters of the tribe searched for days for you, but never found you. They then figured the ones who’d killed our birth parents had taken you away with them.” She paused. “It’s only been recently that we learned that wasn’t what happened to you.”
    Brolach shook his head. “It isn’t. It was vampires who killed our parents. Our mother’s family.”
    “We learned that,” Torger said. “It took us many, many years to find out what lands our birth parents had come from, and who had murdered them. A lot of the family have moved to different countries, with quite a few living throughout the States. We’ve been hunting them down, trying to get the true story of what happened here in South Dakota on the day of our birth.”
    “I can tell you that,” Brolach said with a sigh. “The vampires set fire to our home to flush us out. They captured our mother once she ran outside. They lied and told our father they’d let her go if he surrendered to them. They bound him and I with ropes threaded with silver, then burned our mother at the stake. While she screamed as the flames claimed her, they cut our father’s head off. They tried three times to do the same to me, but I healed instantly.”
    “Fuck,” Cameron said from where he sat next to Brolach on the couch. “Three fucking times?”
    “What happened to you after that?” Kaisa asked.
    “They kept me bound, thinking the silver weakened me and buried me on a hill in the grasslands. I let them.” Brolach paused and looked at his brother and sister. “I went to ‘sleep.’ If I’d known the two of you lived, I wouldn’t have given up.” He shook his head. “I didn’t awaken until Waverly came to the hill a few days ago. She was the one who suggested I could have a hybrid sibling out there who’d survived the fire that took our mother. It never occurred to me since you hadn’t been born.”
    Kaisa stood and came to stand in front of Brolach before she went on her knees. She took his hands in hers. “You didn’t do anything wrong. As you said, you didn’t know. We’ve found each other now. You, Waverly, Torger and I can be a family.”
    “Hey, what about me?” Cameron asked.
    “Sorry. You, Waverly, Torger, Cameron and I can be a family.” She leaned in and hugged Brolach, then stood and turned her head to look at their brother. “At least we know that snitch of a vampire in Finland was right about Brolach being buried.”
    Torger nodded. “That also means he could have been right about our mother’s family keeping watch over where they did bury him.”
    Brolach stiffened. “The vampires are here in Lemmon?”
    “We’re not sure yet. Cameron, who is a very close friend, originally came here to see if he could find any clues left behind that could tell us what happened to you.”
    Cameron snorted. “After two thousand years, it’s been like looking for a needle in a haystack.”
    Torger smiled. “You know you enjoy it.” He turned his gaze back on Brolach. “He’s known for having a knack for finding people.