Swallowing, she nodded. She’d seen how djinn could appear to blink themselves in and out of existence, moving from place to place almost instantaneously. The thought that she might travel in the same way scared the crap out of her, but she had a feeling that if she demurred, told Hasan she really wasn’t into that kind of travel, he really would get angry with her.
It took more effort than she’d thought to put one foot in front of the other, to make herself go up to the djinn. When she laid her hand in his, all she could think was how human he felt. Shouldn’t his skin have been too cold, or far too hot? Something to tell her that he was of a race terribly different from hers, even if they did look the same?
When he pulled her close to him, put both arms around her waist, she barely stifle
