38Lael could feel the others come to her, hear the murmuring of their voices as they sat in their distant circles and sang words of power; words that gave her strength and vision, words that would see her on her way. She understood now the circle they were all caught in, Alffür and Bledray; Guardians and Ghouls, and the secret knowledge that separated them. Somewhere along the line Guardians had fallen in love with humans, somehow their need to protect had grown until human fate and Guardian mixed. Hunters were born from the sacrosanct melding of the two races, out of the h*******t of a Gathering.
The face of the Ghoul swam in front of her, but had no real meaning. Lael’s throat contracted with the instinctive need to gag, but she did not turn from the lunging mouth.
Tonight, her fate wa
