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a translation of that?”
    “Of course. I will work on it right away. The other books I have aren’t as thorough, but I will record what I can.” Teebie smiled. “My aunt is going to kick herself for not being here to greet you.”
    “Why?”
    “Because mythological creatures are not common. Despite her marrying a unicorn, she hasn’t seen a lot of your category of shifter in several years.”
    “She married a unicorn?”
    “Yup, but they are constant. There are always the same amount of unicorns in the world, no matter the different variants. None of your kind have been reported for at least two hundred years.”
    Eileen watched Teebie rise to her feet. “Thank you.”
    “It was my pleasure. Now, as for Harris, his reaction may just have been that of an aroused male who didn’t want his erection to upset you. Talk to him and find out.”
    Eileen sighed. “I am sure he has gone to bed by now.”
    “He hasn’t. He is waiting down the hall. Come out and talk to him.”
    “Why do you care?”
    Teebie grinned, her teeth white in her blue features. “Because I work at the Crossroads and getting compatible shifters together is my reason for being here. Come on. It won’t hurt anything and you might get some insight into why he is interested.”
    “Fine. I will come out and talk to him if he is still there.”
    Teebie exited the room and Eileen followed. Sure enough, Harris was waiting with a look of endless patience. Eileen nodded to him and stepped down the stairs with her head high.
    She heard him follow and continued from the base of the stairs into the sitting room.
    She took a seat on the couch, and he sat next to her, close but not touching. She folded her hands in her lap and waited, but he seemed content to sit in silence.
    This was not going to be easy.
     

Chapter Five
     
     
    After five minutes, she whispered, “You flinched.”
    Harris was calm. “You surprised me. The contact was not unwelcome; it was merely unexpected. I was going to explain but you ran.”
    She tangled her fingers together. “I have more experience with rejection than acceptance.”
    He nodded. “I understand, but sometimes you need to give it a few heartbeats before you make a run for it.”
    She nodded. “I apologize for my sprint.”
    “May I ask what community you were raised in?”
    Eileen bit her lip. “Community?”
    “Of shifters. I need to know what your courtship traditions are.”
    “I wasn’t raised with shifters. I was adopted when I was seven.”
    Harris nodded in understanding. “You were raised by humans.”
    “I wasn’t raised by humans either. My mother is a half-elf and my grandfather is a full-blooded fey pain in the ass.”
    Harris took her hand in his and smoothed her fingers along his. “I think you need to go back a little further.”
    She sighed and decided just to come clean. “I was born to two omega coyotes. They were so far down the pack order that it was only at my first shift that any of the other pack members noticed that I didn’t smell right. When I transformed into a badger, they knew it. As you know, there are rumours that a fairy was able to change a shifter’s beast with magic, so my parents were ordered to find a way to make me a coyote or not bring me back.”
    He winced. “So, your parents found a fairy to do the transformation.”
    She lifted her free hand and rocked it from side to side. “We got me into a coyote form but the magic couldn’t bind me there.”
    “We?”
    “Lord Adros Heller. He is the elf that did the magic work. He and I worked to find the inner coyote, and he tried to bind it to my body. It worked until I shifted back to human and then back to animal. I became a peahen, a wolf and a bear in quick succession. The fey magic just increased the speed of my transformation, and for years, we believed it was the cause of the variety.”
    She inhaled and finished this part of the tale. “I wasn’t allowed to return home with my family, so they left me