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    Many of their siblings had died in battles in the early centuries, before Dacia was born. She’d heard tales from Zoe. It was said that the ones with more explosive and wild temperaments were those who perished. It left a mark on some of the eldest of them. She knew it had marked Mia, the most sensitive of her three sisters. Dacia had seen it in her eyes whenever they spoke of ancient times. Had those times and their parents’ supposed paranoia shaped their personalities? She’d only been a few years old when they’d died in a fiery plane crash. Immortality was not truly as it was defined. Their family had learned the hard way that losing a head or burning to ash was permanent, but apparently most anything else could be recovered from.
    She’d been told that her mother and father were adamant that they live quietly and protect themselves from discovery, from humans who’d love to experiment on them.
    She didn’t have any true memories of her parents. Impressions, but she wasn’t sure her mind hadn’t made those up. She knew her parents, along with the Immortals her siblings were trying to find, had escaped the God Apollo’s twisted warrior camp millennia ago. Her parents, mainly her father, hadn’t fully trusted the others who’d escaped at their side. They’d separated from them sometime after attaining their freedom, never to have seen them again. It was a mystery as to where they were or if they were even still alive.
    Through the centuries a few siblings had split off and searched for them, against their parents’ wishes. The last such attempt had been hundreds of years ago. Isa said they’d always come back empty-handed, or not at all. Now they all hunted for them, as cautiously as possible. They could communicate through their family mental link no matter what the physical distance was, so they were never truly alone. Their bond was strong, and they were not without abilities. If the Immortals, once they were found, proved dangerous, they could protect themselves.
    They were used to hiding in plain sight. Their parents were right about one thing, humans would love to take them apart and imprison them. Survival and intelligence dictated that they move around. Technology had made it easier, and more difficult, all at the same time. It helped that they had a substantial amount of wealth. Through the years corporations were formed. Buildings and homes were mostly rented as needed around the world, but they kept a few locations permanently hidden. They’d been nomadic for so long, some behaviors were ingrained. They never grew attached to any one locale, and were cautious about getting too close to humans.
    Dacia wasn’t convinced all humans were necessarily the enemy, but she didn’t care to get close enough to test that theory. She was not without a mind of her own, with the logical capacity for deriving her own conclusions from the actions of others. It wasn’t as if her family hadn’t been using the mortals for pleasure or profit for centuries.
    At points in their lives her siblings had all attempted taking human lovers. For several millennia they’d coupled, but it never resulted in offspring. According to her sisters, it was not an overly pleasurable or pleasant experience, but they’d wanted children badly enough to fight their beasts to do it. Her brothers had never found it difficult, but her sisters explained that their beasts always rebelled at allowing human males to touch them. With the chances so low, Dacia hadn’t even attempted it. She figured she should probably try soon. Living in a more populated area, she might find a male worth the effort.
    It wasn’t that they never interacted with humans, never left their homes. They’d gone out on occasion to small half-empty dive bars, where they’d dance. They also went shopping and to movies. In the bars she’d watched the humans interact and stare and sometimes approach her and her sisters. She smelled their musky arousal