SHE TILTED HER HEAD in confusion then her eyes lit up in shock and she stuttered out, “You... you really don't know?”
I shook my head. She smiled and stroked my cheek, I leaned into the warmth and closed my eyes.
She said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, “I am your Key.”
I opened my eyes and shrugged in confusion. She blinked in genuine surprise and confusion and asked, “Didn't your parents tell you?”
I shook my head and admitted in a small voice, “I don't know much about the curse. I got my first Calling the day I turned eighteen. My father told me a little about our curse, our sin, as I changed. We both went on the hunt that night, but only I returned.”
She placed both hands on my cheeks and lifted my head so our eyes could meet again. How was it possible th
