“Myself, and the two other elders, Istar and Ibram.”
For the first time, he saw a glint of amusement in her wide blue eyes. “You don’t look like an elder.”
“Age is of little importance among djinn.”
“Must be nice.” She pushed a strand of hair away from her face, tucking it behind one ear. “So that’s why the other djinn didn’t try to come after me? Because he saw you were protecting me and didn’t want to get in trouble with an elder?”
“More or less.”
“Ah.” Another silence, and then she asked, “You said the djinn saved some humans who were their partners. Is that like…partners, partners?”
Idris wasn’t sure why he should be so discomfited by such a question. Perhaps it was only that there was something far more intimate than he’d expected about standing here with her, no other souls wit
