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person she sent to bring me back to her actually knows where on earth she’s hiding or is it shrouded like the Hourglass.”
The look on his face, pensive and slow to react, told me everything I needed to know.
“That’s what I thought,” I answered.
“It ain’t like that,” Royce started. “The Hourglass is hidden so they can work without interference, so they can spin their schemes and play dirty without anyone being able to stop them.”
“And why are you hidden? Why is my mother hiding?”
“To stay safe!” He yelled, the tone is his voice telling me that I should have known that. “You ain’t the only one those bastards would kill on site if they had the chance. Your mother. Your father-“
“They’re both already dead!” I yelled. “Those people you’re talking about, they didn’t raise me. And they sure as hell aren’t here now. I don’t care about reasons. I don’t care about any of it. My parents are dead and they’re never coming back. Those people you’re talking about, the ones who gave birth to me, they’re never going to replace them. And this place where Laurel Luna wants me to meet her, it’s not ever going to be home. Home is gone now too. This isn’t about fairytales for me, Royce. This isn’t about fate, or happy endings, or making everything worth it in the end. This is about practicality. It’s about me staying safe, about keeping the people I love safe. And I can’t do that if I’m running around like an amnesiac chicken with her head cut off. I need to have my bearings back. I need to know where I’ve been if we’re gonna have a chance of getting where we’re going. And if you don’t understand that, then I’m not sure Laurel Luna sent the right person.”
Royce stared at me a long time, huffing and glaring at me. For a minute, I thought he was going to lose it for long enough for me to see what his actual eyes looked like for once, all yellow and raven-like. Instead, he bit his lip and said, “Uncle Renner knew. He could have taken us there. But he’s dead. He died protecting you.” He looked away from me, shaking his head. “Hell, if you wanna risk your life, and everything we worked for with it, going down some lunatic’s rabbit hole, I don’t suppose you’re going to let me stop you.”
He barged off, marching a few hundred feet off into the desert and stopping before I had the chance to respond, not that I’d have even known what I would say. This was something I needed to do, and Royce was right. Nothing he could say was going to change that.
“Anybody else?” I asked, turning to Casper and Dahlia.
They both stared at me for a long moment before nodding their respective consent.
“How long is this going to take you? We haven’t got all day,” I asked, moving toward Jiqui. He had his knees in the dirt, spooning heaping portions of various weird looking herbs into a metal bowl.
“Look who got conservative all of the sudden,” he jeered at me.
“How long?” I repeated sternly.
“It’s not eye of newt, Bloodmoon. I don’t have to wait for the harvest moon, if that’s what you’re getting at,” he stirred the contents together in one quick motion. “There. Done.”
I felt Dahlia and Casper settle at either side of me. Suddenly, I felt very guilty about what I had just said to Royce. He should be beside me too, not sulking in some desert corner. But what was that he told me back in the Hourglass, when my body was on fire and he kissed me for the first time to put it out?
We do what we do, Sweetheart.
And I had to do this, whether he agreed with me or not.
“The Neanderthal needs to stay back,” Jiqui stood.
“Ouch,” Casper muttered.
“Call him that again, and you’ll be eating from a straw,” I warned.
“I’ll call him Your Majesty if you want,” Jiqui pursed his lips. “It won’t change the fact that the herbs won’t work on him. He’s not a Breaker, and when lit these herbs form a potent fog that’s more
The look on his face, pensive and slow to react, told me everything I needed to know.
“That’s what I thought,” I answered.
“It ain’t like that,” Royce started. “The Hourglass is hidden so they can work without interference, so they can spin their schemes and play dirty without anyone being able to stop them.”
“And why are you hidden? Why is my mother hiding?”
“To stay safe!” He yelled, the tone is his voice telling me that I should have known that. “You ain’t the only one those bastards would kill on site if they had the chance. Your mother. Your father-“
“They’re both already dead!” I yelled. “Those people you’re talking about, they didn’t raise me. And they sure as hell aren’t here now. I don’t care about reasons. I don’t care about any of it. My parents are dead and they’re never coming back. Those people you’re talking about, the ones who gave birth to me, they’re never going to replace them. And this place where Laurel Luna wants me to meet her, it’s not ever going to be home. Home is gone now too. This isn’t about fairytales for me, Royce. This isn’t about fate, or happy endings, or making everything worth it in the end. This is about practicality. It’s about me staying safe, about keeping the people I love safe. And I can’t do that if I’m running around like an amnesiac chicken with her head cut off. I need to have my bearings back. I need to know where I’ve been if we’re gonna have a chance of getting where we’re going. And if you don’t understand that, then I’m not sure Laurel Luna sent the right person.”
Royce stared at me a long time, huffing and glaring at me. For a minute, I thought he was going to lose it for long enough for me to see what his actual eyes looked like for once, all yellow and raven-like. Instead, he bit his lip and said, “Uncle Renner knew. He could have taken us there. But he’s dead. He died protecting you.” He looked away from me, shaking his head. “Hell, if you wanna risk your life, and everything we worked for with it, going down some lunatic’s rabbit hole, I don’t suppose you’re going to let me stop you.”
He barged off, marching a few hundred feet off into the desert and stopping before I had the chance to respond, not that I’d have even known what I would say. This was something I needed to do, and Royce was right. Nothing he could say was going to change that.
“Anybody else?” I asked, turning to Casper and Dahlia.
They both stared at me for a long moment before nodding their respective consent.
“How long is this going to take you? We haven’t got all day,” I asked, moving toward Jiqui. He had his knees in the dirt, spooning heaping portions of various weird looking herbs into a metal bowl.
“Look who got conservative all of the sudden,” he jeered at me.
“How long?” I repeated sternly.
“It’s not eye of newt, Bloodmoon. I don’t have to wait for the harvest moon, if that’s what you’re getting at,” he stirred the contents together in one quick motion. “There. Done.”
I felt Dahlia and Casper settle at either side of me. Suddenly, I felt very guilty about what I had just said to Royce. He should be beside me too, not sulking in some desert corner. But what was that he told me back in the Hourglass, when my body was on fire and he kissed me for the first time to put it out?
We do what we do, Sweetheart.
And I had to do this, whether he agreed with me or not.
“The Neanderthal needs to stay back,” Jiqui stood.
“Ouch,” Casper muttered.
“Call him that again, and you’ll be eating from a straw,” I warned.
“I’ll call him Your Majesty if you want,” Jiqui pursed his lips. “It won’t change the fact that the herbs won’t work on him. He’s not a Breaker, and when lit these herbs form a potent fog that’s more
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