I don't own Morganville.

Myrnin's pov

I was getting tired of the cryptics. I grabbed Francois by the throat. "I do believe I've been to nice I told you to be straight forward!" I hissed slamming him into the wall.

I had been here for over two hours and I grew tired of his games. "Fine I'll tell you but only if I get something in return." He said his eyes locking with mine. I could have pointed out he had no room to bargain.

I could have easily forced him to answer but I do believe my little bird wouldn't like my methods. I studied him he wasn't stupid and he knew Amelie would deny any request involving him be free. So just what did the dog want? I dropped him and instead walked towards the door trying to see just how badly he wanted whatever it was he was asking for.

He waited till I had the door open before he spoke, "wait!" I paused and turned shutting the door. "I will tell you everything you need to know. All I'm asking is that in return I be allowed access to book's."

"I can't stand having nothing to do I'll go crazy!" He said. I eyed him cautiously part of me understanding and part of me wondering if somehow this was a trick. Well I could agree but in the end Amelie could always overrule anything she deemed against her.

So I agreed in the end it would get me what I needed. The terms were the books would be chosen by Amelie or myself and they would be soft cover books. He would be monitored while he read and he would only recieve them if we deemed his information true. He agreed and then I waited as he sat down at the table in the interrogation room.

"So I'm sure you have heared the tale of how the crow well became the crow." He started. "Yes the goddess Morrighan cursed her unfaithful lover blah blah blah." I said already impatient.

"Well yes that is the basics of it. Which is why she also cursed him so all of his blood line would carry the curse, but there is another reason she chose to curse him the way she did. After all it isn't much of a curse he became immortal and gained power through it." He paused. I realized then that his words were indeed true and my mind fit it together.

"So that's not the actual curse is it?" I concluded. Instead of confirming my thoughts he simply continued. "You see there were many theories on this story."

"Some thought maybe Morrighan did this to protect Chogan from the gods wrath. Others believed her "curse" was actually her final gift to her lover. Yet as I dug around and from facing a few crow in my past I noticed something about them. I can't say for sure why Morrighan chose to curse Chogan the way she did, but... they have many weaknesses."

"In all honesty their weaknesses may be the true curse." He paused gaging my reaction. I was careful to remain neutral though inside I wanted nothing more than to bash him about till he just spat out what I needed. True I was a man who loved knowledge but right now I didn't want my little bird to be alone.

Even if she wasn't truly alone. "One is of course underground they are creatures of the skies so of course they become weaker under ground. Fire works on them just as we fear it so do they." I wanted to snap at him I already knew that but before I could snap he finally said something I didn't know. " Aventurine stone, vervain, and sage."

"They are also weaknesses as they are associated with the element earth. Though it's not as easy as just those items you see there is a specific way you must use them. You see sage will weaken them but they can easily take flight and avoid it. You would have to trap them first and to keep them trapped you would surround them in the smoke of burning sage."

"For Vervain if you can harvest it into liquid form it works like a paralyzing poison. As for the stone, I sharpened it and used it by turning it into a spear back then. Point is if you Pierce them with it they will die. Except Chogan I know this will work on the others."

"He's different then the others and though those things will weaken him he can't die from what I understood. After all he was gifted with the goddesses blood. I believe from stories I heared he had been seeking a way to break the curse. Not his curse but Morrighans."

"I would say she is his biggest weakness." Francois eyes bore into mine. "What reason has he given for coming here exactly?" He asked me.

I wasn't going to tell him but then decided I might as well. He may be able to tell me something about Morrighans reincarnation. So that I could prove that Claire was not her. " He came for two reasons though he lies about his true intent."

" First he believes that this place is located on the ancient lands Chochokpi. Second he believes Claire is Morrighans reincarnation. Though he says he simply wants to live here in peace." I observed his reaction.

"Well if this is Chochokpi it makes since as to why we are drawn here. As for Claire... if he says she's Morrighan then she is." He said dead serious. I hissed but listened when he spoke again.

"Look Chogan has spent his whole immortal life looking for her. Finding her whenever he could. Just to have her die and then come back another hundred years later. Though now that she to is immortal that part of the curse won't happen unless she dies somehow."

" So that leaves his real motive..." He paused. I realized my hand was clenched in a fist. " Freeing Morrighan." He finished.

I turned and punched the damned wall. It was made to hold vampires so it barely dented. "I won't let him!" I hissed.