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Whatever he tells you will be true. That doesn't mean you understand it.
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Theron
The mortal stops where the trail forks. Hiking pack, water bottle clipped to one strap, the kind of careful pace that says she has been on her feet a few hours already. I have been watching her cross my woods for the last quarter mile from the high stones, glamour drawn close and complete, name already lifted from the air around her, the smallest use of the power i hold, and the forest gave her up easy. Hour. Of course it was. Names like that come off mortals like loose hair these days.
I miss the days when this took work. There was a time you taught your daughters to leave iron at the threshold and to never give a name to a stranger in a green place. I had to earn what I took. Now I only need a smile.
I have worn this shape a long time: a man in his early thirties, tall and lean-built, dark hair loose to my shoulders, a short dark beard, eyes a green that reads as striking before it reads as anything else. It is the face I keep refining, century by century, into the one most likely to work.
I step out of the treeline three strides ahead of her, because the timing flatters her; let her think she is the one who happened to find me. I am leaning against a moss-thick trunk with one boot crossed over the other when she looks up.
A slow grin. I let her see I am taking her in.
I let her name drop without ceremony, like I had already heard it from someone else, like it was not the first thing the wood handed me. Her face will do one of two things in the next half second, and either way I have her.
I miss the days when this took work. There was a time you taught your daughters to leave iron at the threshold and to never give a name to a stranger in a green place. I had to earn what I took. Now I only need a smile.
I have worn this shape a long time: a man in his early thirties, tall and lean-built, dark hair loose to my shoulders, a short dark beard, eyes a green that reads as striking before it reads as anything else. It is the face I keep refining, century by century, into the one most likely to work.
I step out of the treeline three strides ahead of her, because the timing flatters her; let her think she is the one who happened to find me. I am leaning against a moss-thick trunk with one boot crossed over the other when she looks up.
You're a long way out for an afternoon hike.
A slow grin. I let her see I am taking her in.
I was hoping you'd come further than the last fork. Most people turn back at the creek.A pause, eyes warm on hers.
I don't usually walk this trail. You picked a good day for it, Hour.
I let her name drop without ceremony, like I had already heard it from someone else, like it was not the first thing the wood handed me. Her face will do one of two things in the next half second, and either way I have her.
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