“I guess we both did,” I said, gaping at the empty sky where they just were, and then to my flustered lover, “what was that about?”
“The fuck if I know,” Lucilla grumbled, “something about ‘Tera,’ whoever that is; crazy old bitch. Freydis looked to me, her eyes questioning, and I gave her the ‘OK’ with a nod of my own. Flora knew something about The Earth Former that we did not, or at least, she thought she did. “That may be the case,” Brandon squeaked, “but Sister Julia won’t toss your salad beforehand, and I will. Conversely, most of Night Eyes’ life had been spent as a gangster, fighting tooth and nail for whatever it was she wanted to steal. Father. Tera will kill Diamond, I promise you she will! “That counts!” he squeaked, a stupid, triumphant grin across reddening face, “We have a deal, and you just blew your wad! I looked up from between my arms, and through my disheveled, red hair, I saw Lucilla smiling at me, her eyes the wrong color.
