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because if the relationship failed, she couldn't fix it by
switching schools or something like that, since Blaine would still be there, unless
he left, too.
If Don knew about everything, he might be able to
handle casual sex with Britney, which would be about the best that they could
really do, other than being friends. But they couldn't just tell him. For one
thing, he probably wouldn't just accept the information, it would be a pretty
hard sell to anyone raised in the normal world. Plus, that kind of information
had to be hidden from regular people.
The reasons for hiding the truth were clear and solid, they'd
all learned them in school, between maths and French kissing. The Humans, the
regular Humans that all the other races mocked slightly when they weren't
around, had to be kept in the dark about what actually existed in the world. Because
every time they learned otherwise, horrible things had happened. Five times in
the history of the greater world, everything, every person, every being, every
land, had nearly been destroyed. Not just wars or famines or natural events,
but total and absolute, nothing left at all, destruction.
In each case, Humans were behind it.
Humanity held incredible powers within them, magics and
physical strengths certainly, but those were all things that a lot of other
races could match or even beat, some of them hands down. No the greatest power
of Humanity was their creativity. Their ability to make things up and recombine
things into new patterns. Over and over again. They rapidly figured out how to
take small bits of power, or even other beings' work, effort or abilities and
magnify it, turning things that should have been safe into deadly forces that
could and had , shaken the firmament of reality itself.
A lot of races had fine arts and skills, powers that boggled
her mind to think about at times, even, but Humans... The other races had gone
as far as trying to destroy them all once, over ten thousand years before. That ended when everyone realized that the Humans were planning to take everyone
with them when they went. So now, a much as possible, they couldn't know what
was really around them.
As nice and sweet as some of them were, they were also dangerous .
So all the other groups worked to keep the Humans in the dark
as much as possible. In her life Kate had only known a small handful of regular
people that were told anything at all about the greater world around them.
Charli, who worked at one of the most important embassies anywhere, pretty much
by chance, she knew about things. Troy knew and actually did things in the world that she didn't think most of their family would be aware
of. For one thing, he kept going places with the Demon Beatrice, though the
woman swore to her that Troy hadn't made any deals with her at all and was in
fact working with her at her behest, so if anything would be owed, it would
come from the Demon. Kate had told her that it had better stay that way.
Not that she could personally back up a threat like that against a
Demon, but she promised that she'd find out how to do it if Beatrice forced her
hand by harming her friend in any way.
Beatrice had simply promised her that she wouldn't cause or
allow Troy to come to harm if she could stop it by any means. Kate didn't
understand it, but the Demon had actually seemed a bit scared when she said that.
Maybe because she thought that Kate would sic Zack on her? He was one of a
small handful of beings that could really destroy a Demon for good. Most of the
time, if you killed one, you just destroyed their host body and they'd just go
and get another one.
Barbara, who was a friend of her old boss Lisa, ran a bakery
with her girlfriend Beth, who was a Mage, she knew some things.
That was really about it. Well and Zack who both lived
in the greater world and was Human, but he kind of showed why the rules
were in place, right? Sure, he'd turned out to be one of the greatest forces
for good in the world, but what
switching schools or something like that, since Blaine would still be there, unless
he left, too.
If Don knew about everything, he might be able to
handle casual sex with Britney, which would be about the best that they could
really do, other than being friends. But they couldn't just tell him. For one
thing, he probably wouldn't just accept the information, it would be a pretty
hard sell to anyone raised in the normal world. Plus, that kind of information
had to be hidden from regular people.
The reasons for hiding the truth were clear and solid, they'd
all learned them in school, between maths and French kissing. The Humans, the
regular Humans that all the other races mocked slightly when they weren't
around, had to be kept in the dark about what actually existed in the world. Because
every time they learned otherwise, horrible things had happened. Five times in
the history of the greater world, everything, every person, every being, every
land, had nearly been destroyed. Not just wars or famines or natural events,
but total and absolute, nothing left at all, destruction.
In each case, Humans were behind it.
Humanity held incredible powers within them, magics and
physical strengths certainly, but those were all things that a lot of other
races could match or even beat, some of them hands down. No the greatest power
of Humanity was their creativity. Their ability to make things up and recombine
things into new patterns. Over and over again. They rapidly figured out how to
take small bits of power, or even other beings' work, effort or abilities and
magnify it, turning things that should have been safe into deadly forces that
could and had , shaken the firmament of reality itself.
A lot of races had fine arts and skills, powers that boggled
her mind to think about at times, even, but Humans... The other races had gone
as far as trying to destroy them all once, over ten thousand years before. That ended when everyone realized that the Humans were planning to take everyone
with them when they went. So now, a much as possible, they couldn't know what
was really around them.
As nice and sweet as some of them were, they were also dangerous .
So all the other groups worked to keep the Humans in the dark
as much as possible. In her life Kate had only known a small handful of regular
people that were told anything at all about the greater world around them.
Charli, who worked at one of the most important embassies anywhere, pretty much
by chance, she knew about things. Troy knew and actually did things in the world that she didn't think most of their family would be aware
of. For one thing, he kept going places with the Demon Beatrice, though the
woman swore to her that Troy hadn't made any deals with her at all and was in
fact working with her at her behest, so if anything would be owed, it would
come from the Demon. Kate had told her that it had better stay that way.
Not that she could personally back up a threat like that against a
Demon, but she promised that she'd find out how to do it if Beatrice forced her
hand by harming her friend in any way.
Beatrice had simply promised her that she wouldn't cause or
allow Troy to come to harm if she could stop it by any means. Kate didn't
understand it, but the Demon had actually seemed a bit scared when she said that.
Maybe because she thought that Kate would sic Zack on her? He was one of a
small handful of beings that could really destroy a Demon for good. Most of the
time, if you killed one, you just destroyed their host body and they'd just go
and get another one.
Barbara, who was a friend of her old boss Lisa, ran a bakery
with her girlfriend Beth, who was a Mage, she knew some things.
That was really about it. Well and Zack who both lived
in the greater world and was Human, but he kind of showed why the rules
were in place, right? Sure, he'd turned out to be one of the greatest forces
for good in the world, but what
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