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    I’d like the chance to get to know them, but I don’t know about traveling through the Elvin woods alone with them, Nathan stated with a shrug.
    “It’s settled. Jason and I will return Nathan and Pandora to our city. You are welcome to come as long as you can live by the Guardian City’s rules. Can Pandora shift?” Demend asked no one in particular.
    “No, she’s a late bloomer.” Asher growled. Apparently her shifting was a touchy subject.
    “What aren’t you telling me?” Demend asked with a gleam that promised death.
    “Oh Mother Earth, big brother, it’s a family secret,” Kadyn pointed out.
    “Yeah, we’re family. Where is that old wooden sword of yours?” Demend asked with interest. Nathan was dying to ask, but figured there was enough to deal with already.
    “Back on track, boys,” Jason ordered with a foot stamp.
    “She may never shift. She’s half human,” Asher finally said, casting a cloak of silence throughout the room. Nathan smiled slightly at the irony. His mother had left him to his father because he was a runt. He wondered how she treated her half-human granddaughter.
    “That’s it? She’s half-human? Oh lord, we are so going to have to work on your point of view. Humans are the greatest, they invented Disney,” Demend pointed out.
    The door opened, cutting off whatever else Demend was going to say. A smaller man with the same thick, raven hair walked in with an almost teenaged girl hidden behind him. The man smiled encouragingly, but the girl looked to be lost in her own thoughts for a moment. When she finally looked up, the intelligence shined through her indigo-colored eyes. Nathan could see that this was going to be a learning lesson he would never forget.
    “Pandora, this is Nathan, your uncle, and his two mates Jason, and D,” Kadyn introduced politely.
    “Hello, are you the ones I am going to be living with?” Pandora asked in a quiet voice that said she had seen way too much in her young years. Before anyone could respond, she bulldozed, “You know I’m a human?”
    “So was Snow White,” Demend responded with a shrug. It would seem the girl was touchy about her half-heritage, and it would be something they would have to work on.
    “Humans are weak, helpless, defenseless, stupid, and I’ll never be able to shift. The doctor told Grandmother that,” Pandora said stiffly.
    “Being unable to shift doesn’t make you unable to defend yourself. Humans are creative, inspiring, loving, gifted, intelligent, and capable of defending themselves. It’s called a rocket launcher, and, honey, no Shape-Shifter can live through it. Your species doesn’t make you strong, talented, or bright. These traits change within each individual within the species,” Demend explained to Pandora with a smile that spoke of the amount of years he had lived. Nathan had to agree with his mate on the points, but didn’t want to be the one to scold the girl for her own worthless feelings.
    “So you’re Kadyn’s big brother?” Asher asked Demend in a tone that said he didn’t buy it.
    “We share the same Sires, though he is much younger than I am,” Demend answered politely.

     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Six
     
    It didn’t take long to get everything the girl had to have in the next few days. Kadyn promised to send her things later in the week, and D felt better about the situation. Asher and Levi agreed to join them, and they left the compound without any issues. D considered how they would get the girl back to the city. He could fly her back, but he wasn’t sure she would be comfortable in the air. They reached the foliage where their small company started to place items inside a doggy bag.
    “How do you want to do this, Miss Pandora? We can either go by air, or take the ground route where you can be close to your uncles?”
    “Did you not follow that I can’t shift?” Pandora asked in concern. It appeared the girl didn’t understand that she would be catching a