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invisible. He shimmered and rippled into something
different. A soft nimbus coated his entire being. Pearlescent it
repelled my gaze.
    “Stop hiding from me and I’ll go,” I said.
“You want me to trust you and I can manage some trust since you
haven’t killed me. But you have to trust me back. You say you’re a
demon, well then what kind? Show me your true form.”
    “I don’t have the time for this.”
    “Come on, it can’t take that long. Show me
then you can run off and do whatever you were doing before you just had to help me.”
    He made a noise of frustration and pointed
again. “Will you at least move in the right direction as we
talk?”
    I nodded curtly. I was persistent not stupid.
If he was this antsy something bad must be coming this way.
    “If we run I can get you back and maybe catch
it up. Follow me,” he said.
    And then he was gone. One moment he’s
walking, and the next he’s a silver blur zipping through the trees
ahead of me.
    It was odd, because I knew it was demon fast,
but I could track his movement with my gaze. Was it crazy that I
wanted to follow him? Grudgingly, I admitted to myself I’d never
wanted to follow someone so badly, and I was never one to shy away
from a physical challenge. I’d run blindingly fast from the hounds,
and the only difference between now and then was that I was scared.
Huh, piece of cake. I had loads of scared stored up around the
solar plexus area. Tapping into the well of energy inside me was
too easy, and I burst forward.
    Everything was so bright and lively, and it
was nothing for me to flow across the land at a velocity strange,
yet comforting. Breandan took a sharp turn and I was pleased to see
I was gaining, gliding across the ground at his side. A chuckle
caught my ear. I had made him laugh, and a silly tide of happiness
blazed through me. I grinned, and laughed, and sped up to leave him trailing behind. The floor yielded to every pound of my
foot. Not a single branch snagged my hair or cut my skin because I
didn’t let it. I zipped and dodged, jumped and spun a trail in the
undergrowth. I didn’t know where I was running to, but it felt good
to be in motion.
    The air was heavy with a piquant scent that
fizzed on my tongue. The silhouette of trees taller than any I’d
seen rose high in the sky, and a few stars already winked down at
me. I’m not a botanist, so all I can say is that there were plants.
A big orgy of red, blues and purples scattered everywhere. The
breeze was crisp and made everything sway in orderly chaos. The
buzzing of insect and restless whining of beast punctured the dawn
in harmonic beat.
    I knew the moment Breandan’s hand reached for
mine. My skin tingled and like a magnet seeking its opposite, my
hand moved to meet his. A light tug slowed me to a stop. I plucked
a leaf from my hair and brushed a lick of dirt off my cheek. I
could have continued this grooming session for a while since I felt
twigs and thorns caught in my clothes and hair, but I was
distracted.
    Breandan stood still and let me roam my eyes
over him. His profile was sharper somehow, and I pushed the hair
out of my eyes to drink the strong column of throat that flowed
into solid chest. His ears held my attention for a long while,
couldn’t say why, before my gaze slid over the straightness of his
nose, and the strong planes of his cheek and forehead.
    “Let’s keep moving,” he said. I stood still
and he had to either tug me again or let go of my hand. He let go
and sighed dramatically. “Stop being difficult. If you’re not back
at Temple soon, they’ll be suspicious of you and it won’t be safe
there anymore.”
    He walked off and took no more than five
steps before I felt an insistent tug, a niggling urge pushing me
toward him. I suspected it had something to do with that painful
heat I’d felt when he’d touched me skin to skin for the first time.
He had a lot of explaining to do. Gritting my teeth, I started
after him and reached out the same