by Plum Pascal
He nodded. “I didn’t forget. But confidential is confidential. It doesn’t matter who you are.”
I pushed away from the tree, annoyed. “Quillan gives me my jobs, not you. Talk to him.”
“This goes over his head. If you want me to report back to the Relations Office that you were less than willing to comply, I can do that.”
I stopped in my tracks. He was threatening me now? Great, I was stuck. Whatever the Netherworld wanted, it got. Otherwise, I could be deported for failing to do my job. Especially when it appeared that job was now coming from a higher power than Quillan.
“No, don’t do that,” I said, annoyed. “So going back to this creature, you think someone called it?”
Knight smirked, knowing he had me. “I know someone called it.”
His cockiness really irked me. “Do you know what the creature is? I think it’s a werewolf.”
“No, it’s a Kragengen shifter.”
“Oh, really?” I said, pretending to know what the hell that was.
“You don’t have Kragengens here,” he said with a smile, as if he knew what I was thinking. “They only exist in the Netherworld.”
“Great, how in the hell are we going to find a shape-shifter?” I asked. “Talk about a needle in a haystack.
“Kragengens are not true shifters. They can only assume one form aside from their animal forms. If we find it in its human form, we’ve got it.”
I was quiet as I considered it. “What about the fact that there wasn’t any blood?”
“Kragengens are blood suckers though not vampires. Distantly related,” Knight finished, looking as pleased with himself as an A student.
I threw my hands on my hips. “Since you have this all figured out, what do you need my help for?”
He nodded. “Two heads are better than one.”
“Aren’t macho guys like you supposed to insist they work alone?”
He shrugged. “Whoever said I’m macho? Truth of it is, I do prefer to work alone. But orders are orders.”
“You have orders from higher up to work with me?” He nodded. “Why me and not Quillan?”
“Confidential.”
I glared at him. This “confidential” stuff was getting old. “So back to you—you said you were a lichen?”
He laughed again, this time deeper. “A Loki. Lichen is algae.”
Heat shot to my cheeks. Lichen? Ugh. “Whatever, a Loki. What’s so great about you?”
“I have the strength of a vampire and I can influence dreams.”
“That’s it?” I asked, not meaning to sound so rude. “I mean, you can’t do magic?”
He shook his head. “No magic. I’m immune to it, though.”
“So I noticed,” I grumbled, remembering the ice and fire episodes. “Okay, smart-guy, any ideas on how we nab this shape-shifting creature?”
“Based on the fact that it tore Fabian to pieces, it probably enjoys causing pain. So I ask you—where would a supernatural creature who enjoys inflicting pain want to spend its free time, here in Splendor?”
I felt a chill. “Dagan’s S&M club, Payne.”
He slid off the swing and nodded. “Bingo.”
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