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“Are you telling me they’re chaotic neutral?”
“Yes, that. But more than that they’re a law unto themselves.”
“Checks out. Is Drake really his name? It doesn’t quite suit him.”
“Drake is the name he uses in the west. In the east he is Shenlong.”
“That tracks. I like the hair. Back to your roots, huh?”
“For now. So I heard Dom’s found you a compound of epic proportions and you’re moving there soon.”
This was news to me. Kind of. It made perfect sense so I wasn’t exactly surprised. “Am I?” I asked.
“That information was from the man himself. Is he okay, by the way? He seems…a little off.”
“I don’t know how much you’ve heard about what happened, but he’s the one that found me at the harvesters. I was in bad shape. It was a lot for him. For me, too. It was my first direct, personal run-in with what a slayer weapon can really do to us. I haven’t been that helpless since childhood.”
“I’ve heard enough to know it was bad.” Her voice was measured. I knew her as you can only know a sister. Enough to know her perfectly neutral tone was hiding a world of concern. “Wanna talk about it?”
“Not really. So where are you going to live with your betrothed?”
“Don’t call him that. And I was going to ask you to go house hunting with me for a place close to your compound.”
“You want me to be your eyes?” I teased her. “Can you see at all yet?”
“I can some but they’re still healing. And if anyone can figure out what I’ll like, it’s you.”
“I’d be happy to help as soon as Dom lets me out of bed.”
“And when do you think that’ll be?”
“Probably when I can stay conscious for longer than ten minutes at a time.”
“It’s that bad, huh?”
“Because of the slayer weapons they used—”
“Multiple slayer weapons?”
“Yes, at least three,” I said matter of factly. “Some of the harvesters were slayers themselves—”
“I heard the druids went to war with the English dragon slayers,” she interrupted like she’d been dying to talk about this subject. “I was surprised but now it’s beginning to make sense.”
“I wish I could have been there,” was all I said.
“Same, sis, same. I heard it was quick, over in a few days, a few vicious battles, and that most of the English slayers were wiped out clean.”
“That part I can confirm.”
“Dom, huh?”
“Him, yeah.”
“Nice that you have a king at your beck and call, ready and eager to avenge you.”
“Don’t start,” I began.
“I wasn’t joking. It makes me add more pros in Drake’s column when I consider a match, ya know?”
