“Your elemental told me you were back.” Clover said to me. “I assume everything went smoothly.” “There are a few things we need to discuss, but Hollis is with Marius.” Flint replied. Clover looked over at him and nodded. “It’s been a while. We started moving on after a couple weeks. I figured I could get back here pretty fast and we wouldn’t have to wait around.” “What is that thing?” I asked. “A shapeshifter.” She grinned. “In the human realm, he was called an Akh’lut. I call him Dave. It pisses off Kinlee. Dave likes it. He came to the nexus looking for food and ended up getting attacked. He fought back and ate a few people. None of ours, though. I managed to get him to calm down and talk to me. He doesn’t speak any of the languages around here. He can understand Kinlee when she

