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Discovering
He laughed at me for a minute, then said, "Can you come back?"
My heart stopped, I could feel my blood draining away from my face as I thought about meeting another human, "Why?"
"I want you to meet my mother Holly. Please?"
I could barely resist his offer, sighing, I turned around, but I was still going to argue with him. "Why should I?"
"I think it would do her good to see that all fairies are not Opal Kobois."
"Do you have any idea how much trouble this is going to get me in?" I asked, already shuddering at the thought of another council meeting.
"I'll explain it to them. Please?" he pleaded.
He pleaded? What was going on right now? "What's going on Artemis?" I used a hard voice.
His face fell, "Well," he hedged, "Um- it's just that- um, I'm really nervous about," his speech turned quicker, "I'm really nervous about you meeting my mother."
Had he stuttered? That was not normal behavior for him. He despised people who couldn't make up their minds about what they were going to say. Was he trying to warn me? "Tell me now," I hissed in Gnomish, hoping that his issue was someone watching.
Instead, he switched to a dialect of French spoke only in a certain mountainous village, "Come with LEP," he hissed, "Holly I lov-."
My heart turned numb as his connection terminated. I could barely think about what he had said in his last sentence. I turned and raced back to the nearest terminal I could. I connected with the LEP channel instantly.
Holly