They were a strange breed of Fae shethought each time she saw them like this."I felt her spark," M'Tehr said quietly."Yes, it happened just before daw...," Jacen acknowledged worrying at a thickroot curling over his abdomen. She tired of me not long after that." So, it is done then?" M'Tehr asked."It is done," Jacen answered grunting as he lifted the root free.He curled the twisted wood away from his body and wriggled out from underit. He was almost free now."Will we be returning to Morleth Phar'. No one can interfere with it, not even this system we live in. And you. Your words are only for enticing me to do your bidding. I don’t believe you. These are just like the words of the devil. Tempting but false.”“How naïve. Let’s get one thing straight, for I don’t like misunderstandings to fester between co-workers.”, he ignored the squawk of protest from Anna as he continued, “My words aren’t of the devil. I am the devil! And I deliver on my promises.”“And I promise you, by the end of this. “Chops…” Daddy yelled, “With shrooms n rice!” he added at the last second and pulled me in close as I sat next to him. I wanted to ask him if he’d talked to mommy yet even though I knew he hadn’t a free moment since we got home. Instead I asked him if he wanted a beer and he smiled brightly at that. I went into the kitchen and saw mommy lovingly preparing dinner as I grabbed a silver can from the fridge. She looked at me as I closed it. “It’s for Daddy!” I said, worried I’d get into. I honestly doubt he would even have remembered my name. He was a player in the truest sense of the word, and in a high school of over a thousand girls, he must have dated at least forty of them, and fucked well over two hundred. I couldn’t help but remember with a hint of amusement when I saw her in the corner of the coffee shop, that between her daughter Ally, her son Brad, and her husband, Elizabeth Facelli was the only member of her family that I hadn’t fucked. The truth was, however, I.