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your care?"
"Because he is my king's grandson," the small man snapped, "and from the day the grandson was
born, His Majesty commanded me to watch and care for him—aye, and for each of his sibs as they were
born, too."
"An interesting command." Evanescent's smile widened.
"Do not show your teeth to me and think to cow me by their threat!" the small one snapped, and the
score at his back chorused agreement. "I am the Puck, and all with any sense fear my whims!"
"If my smile displeases you, I shall veil it," Evanescent said equably. She knew that her shark-like
teeth, once seen, were not easily forgotten, so did not mind closing her lips. "Still, I wonder how you
could think to protect a man who is so much larger, and clearly much stronger, than yourself."
"By magic, of course." The little man and all his mates scowled intently as he aimed a finger at her.
A blow from an unseen hand rocked Evanescent back on her stub of a tail. She gasped, dizzy and
frightened, her universe suddenly topsy-turvy. When it righted itself and stabilized, she knew it would
never be completely firm again. No species but her own had ever been able to lash out at her with such
force. "How … how did you …"
"By magic, as I said," the little man said impatiently, "magic of my own, and of the twenty-odd
two thousand years of knowledge and experience to draw on, and hundreds of thousands of elves to
strengthen my spells. Tell me what you are, and from where you have come."
So they called themselves "elves" and guarded their minds well—Evanescent could barely catch a
stray thought from any of them. But those thoughts were all of concern for the man they knew as
Magnus, and anger at Evanescent for endangering him. She began to relax—they were only interested in
the same thing, after all: Magnus's welfare. They were natural allies. She merely had to convince them
of that.
Merely.
"I come from another world," she said, "one that circles a sun that is only a star among many in
your sky. I came across your … ward … and his lady when they were trying to free the humans of my
world from a would-be tyrant. I took an interest in them, for they were unlike any others—and saw that
they were putting themselves in enormous danger. I followed to save them with my own—magic, if you
wish to call it that—if it became necessary."
"Did it?" the little man demanded.
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