Magnetic and dangerous and beguiling. Capable of anything.
“Well then,” he said through thinned lips, “if it’s only answers you’re after...”
He slid away from her, moving toward the marble fireplace on the opposite side of the room. It hadn’t been lit last night; the hearth was cold with day-old ashes. She followed his progress with her eyes as he paused with one hand propped against the mantel.
He turned to look at her. She couldn’t read the expression on his face.
“It’s answers you shall have. Follow me, if you please.”
He Shifted to vapor and vanished into the black mouth of the fireplace. A wisp of trailing gray smoke curled out behind him as he rose up the chimney and into the gathering gloom of the morning sky.It took only a moment before her surprise wore off and she Shifted he
