I’m fine, I assured him.
You took two steps toward that door.
Rupert wants us to investigate it.
Let me go in alone. It has some magical allure for humans. Your face got blank there. Any enemy could have stabbed you in the back.
Not with you protecting me. But I took his point. It had been ridiculously hard to resist the allure of the first orb, and this one was just as strong, if not stronger. I drew Nightshade, willing the blade to help me push the invading presence out of my mind. It’s not just humans. The shifters under the house were really into this thing.
Moans drifted out of the room.
Yes, but they’re human too. From what I’m seeing, the other races here are curious but not as drawn. Damas glanced back down the hall. A human woman wandered out of a side room and walked past u
