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shadows of the parking lot when she saw them for the first time two of them.
Her mouth opened, and she wished silently that it wasn t happening that somehow
they weren t there in her parking lot. Things were bad enough without this too &
She ducked her head and averted her gaze, even while telling herself behaving like an
ostrich wouldn t save her. However, they hadn t noticed her yet as they stood with each
other in conversation. Monsters, misshapen, drooling, and looking for food with shark
eyes.
She was using the shadow of the building and shrubbery as camouflage as she headed
for the narrow flight of wooden stairs to her apartment when she saw a car pull into the
parking lot. Two young women jumped out.
She wanted to shout loud and clear, Get back in your car and drive off go on, go, the
restaurant is closed! Couldn t they see the lights were out? However, if she made so
public a display, she would draw the Dark Fae s attention not only to herself, but to
where she lived. Could they shift? Her mother had taught her that not all castes of dark
Fae could shift.
The grotesque Unseelie moved closer to the girls, which put them in the glowing light
of the street lamp, and BJ saw them in their full glory abominations. They were
things creatures gross beyond measure. Grimacing in disgust, her hand went out
involuntarily towards the young women.
What could she do? She had to do something. These things were throbbing with
hunger. She could see the saliva dripping from the openings she presumed were their
mouths.
Evidently they had the power to use what the Seelie Fae used to walk amongst
humans, Glamour. The beautiful Seelie Fae used Glamour to hide their alien eyes and
make them seem more human. These two were using Glamour, but it just barely
concealed what they were. BJ heard one of them chanting and decided they were also
using a spell to create the illusion of two attractive young men.
The women were giggling like schoolgirls, and BJ had her hand over her mouth with
horror as she stilled the scream in her throat. Those two are in trouble. BJ s mind started
working overtime. Must do something. The human Glamour the two beasts used scarcely
concealed their spidery bodies, but their mesmerizing spell seemed to have the two girls
in a trance. BJ looked around her, determined to do something that would save the girls
preferably while not getting herself killed.
Again she had to consider whether or not this particular caste of Dark Fae could shift.
She would be in deep shit if they were able to move that fast. She used her mind and tried
to scan one of the monster s thoughts. Ugh gross! Okay no shifters here. They were
the lowest cast of dark Fae, and all they had on their minds was feeding on humans &
These were things that looked to her like they had just crawled out of the Black
Lagoon the muck still hanging off their bodies. Somehow they had found a portal to
her world! They were passing themselves off as human men in order to feed. They
would suck those girls dry, take everything they had, and leave nothing but a husk of a
body!
The two looked alike (maybe they could tell each other apart she sure couldn t).
Each thing had two upper rows of jagged teeth and drooled in clumps of thick goo. And
yet, these two women were smiling at them in a worshipping mode as they made dove
eyes for the dark Unseelie. Definitely spelled, BJ decided.
She was frozen in place and sick to her stomach. It was like watching a horror movie,
knowing something was going to happen, and reaching out and screaming, No don t,
but the characters in the movie never listen. They always tumble head on into the danger.
She didn t know how the Unseelie had escaped their prison; however, at the moment
that wasn t her concern. Two things guided her: she needed to protect her anonymity, and
she needed to help the two women.
She knew turning around and walking away was not an option. She just couldn t. So
the question remained: how could she help? She had to find a way. One of them put out a
clawed thing and scraped it along the woman s arm. BJ knew he was hurting her, but she
seemed oblivious.
Okay, do something, she screamed at herself in her mind. What do you know? I know
Fae history. Hundreds of very different Unseelie castes had been created by the Dark
King. Not much more was known about them. All had some Fae powers & She had no
idea which caste these two uglies represented. She had no idea what she could do to stop
them.
Her mom had taught her everything she needed to know about the Fae, but she had
only given her a sketchy description of the Unseelies, knowledge passed down their
matriarchal Fios line.
As the Unseelies began to seriously hurt the women with their touching, BJ slapped
her forehead. Think stop them! She was nearly freaked as she looked around frantically
to see what she could use to distract the girls from the spell. Things in her life were
damned complicated enough with the beautiful Fae walking around her world. Now she
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