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getting his ass charred again.
    “Fiorn, the Valendran legend,” Leif said with a snort. “Well, he decided that our people needed to stick together and not separate—that they were stronger and better if they stayed together and built a fortified place to protect themselves.”
    Leif stood and started pacing on what he was referring to in his mind as “his side” of the room, using the bed to delineate the halfway marker.
    “Obviously, they didn’t listen to him. The hybrids slipped off into the night until he was alone—and pissed off. As a few hundred years went by, he became more and more bitter and angry that the Valendrans had left the outpost survivors behind. Finally, he found his mate, Thjodhild, became known as Erik the Red, and settled in a Viking village and had a son, Leif, my father.”
    Leif took a deep breath and continued, while the fiery woman was still quiet.
    “After a brutal battle with the Relians where most of the village was killed in an effort to protect his mate and my father, Fiorn was banished and went to Greenland. Before they left, my grandmother’s father promised to change the sagas so that no one would ever figure out who Fiorn was so the Relians and even the other outpost survivors would never find them.”
    Leif paused to see if True was even paying attention and was a little surprised to see that had settled back on the edge of the bed, listening intently.
    Leif continued.
    “From there, the history gets muddled, which is what they were going for . . . lie, change names, change history, fuck with everything you can in order to keep everyone hidden and from being found. We’ve mastered it,” Leif said with a snort and shake of his head.
    “The legendary ass has made it a mission to lie, cheat, and steal to hide. Don’t get me wrong, he had good reason . . . But now?” Leif shook his head again.
    He cleared his throat.
    “Sorry . . . anyway. Using the light stones, which he’d told his people were called sun stones, he and my father eventually guided them here to America. He’d been able to collect a dozen hybrids along the way and used their abilities to find the ley lines that eventually led to the original cave entrance that you found,” Leif said.   
    True, who had always been fascinated by the Valendrans’ dramatic impact on human history, was enthralled by the story and listening intently. When he paused, she motioned for him to continue.
    “Go on!” she encouraged.
    Leif smiled.
    My little fire princess likes stories , he thought.
    “Fiorn became obsessed about keeping everyone hidden from the world. This new world and the native people gave us hundreds of years to build this place in secrecy. We became known as the Giants to them. We left them alone, and they left us alone.”
    Leif sighed.
    “Then people finally came here and started building towns and the risk of discovery was becoming too great, so Fiorn secretly funded the effort to get this place designated as a national forest to ensure that no one could build any closer to the mountain. He did the same to all of the other places that he’d been building through the years as well.”
    True loved a good story, but his tale wasn’t helping her find Grai.
    “What the hell does any of this have to do with you taking us hostage and threatening to kill your own?” she asked with irritation.
    Leif growled slightly.
    “I prevented you from being taken with the others! It’s a long story! I’m trying to explain why the legendary ass is such a . . . legendary ass! He hates his people! He considers them cowards with no honor! He doesn’t think the Valendrans deserve to have mates. He’s spent years refusing to help the Valendrans on the planet while collecting the hybrids like . . . toy soldiers!”
    Leif stomped around the room.
    “He thinks just as little of the humans—refusing to help them with the Relians—letting them be destroyed by their own people. Do you have any damn idea who we really