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There’s an amazing DJ who’s an elf.
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He has a real ear for it.
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When they do decide to do something for real, they’re always the best at it.”
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If it was March, that meant that we’d been together almost a year and a half.
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He downed the second shot.
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“I am glad to be out of the favor-trading scene for half a minute.
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It’s exhausting to talk to those people.
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One wrong word and you find yourself cursed with infinite earwax or something.
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So what else do you want to know, Nathan?”
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“I don’t know …hey, what about the nature spirits, things like that?
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I mean, where do the dryads fit in a place like this?”
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“If the tree isn’t around, the dryad isn’t around.
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It’s as simple as that.”
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That made me a little sad.
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They were always my favorite part of the Greek myths I read in elementary school.
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“Well, what about you?
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“My parents came over from Russia, just like your family.
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My real name is a little more ethnically appropriate, but we don’t toss those around in this place.
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It was last February, after the winter break, that we moved in together.
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They were spirits of a certain branch of the Volga and the village based around a mill on that tributary.
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When the Russian government dammed the river, my parents decided that instead of dying with the river, they would stick with the people of the village they’d protected.
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I was born here, and I was lucky enough not to get attached to any particular river.
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Sure, I miss having a place to settle down, but it’s better than waiting to get dammed.”
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He took another shot of vodka.
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“Shouldn’t you be going light on the vodka?
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I mean, we might have a lot of work ahead of us.”
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“Are you kidding?
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I can drink like a fish, kid.
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We should get going, though.
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Still woozy?”
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I nodded.
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“A little walking should get the stuff into your system.
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Come on, let’s go.”
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As we left the bar, I asked to see the rock.
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“Why?”
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Nepthys asked.
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“I’m just curious.
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I want to see what a magic stone looks like.
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Don’t worry, I’ll be careful not to touch it.”
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He thought about it, then handed me the pouch.
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I undid the strings and let the pouch sit on my palm so that I could see the stone inside.
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It looked like a normal river stone, a gray oval with a white stripe through it.
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As long as I looked at it, it didn’t reveal any magic sparkle or glow.
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Suddenly, what looked like a little kid darted out of an alley and almost ran into me.
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I almost tripped over him, and the stone went flying out of the pouch.
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Nepthys tried to grab it, but, by reflex, I caught it first.
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“Isn’t it an amazing night, Rache?
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Immediately, I felt it grow warm and knew that I had done something very stupid.
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“Nathan,” said Nepthys, “I think that you just did something very stupid.”
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“I agree,”
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The stone was as warm as human flesh now, and there was a sort of glow that might have been light or just the stone’s soft heat, I don’t know.
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Even the city feels alive when spring comes.”
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Then there was light, a kind of rosy glow, and I felt the stone slip out of my hand to float in the air.
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I shouted, hardly able to hear myself.
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Nepthys was saying something that looked like, “I have no idea!”
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“I have no idea!”
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but I couldn’t hear him.
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The light in the corners of my eyes rushed in, converging on the rosy glow around the stone, and for a moment I was blind.
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“Taxi!”
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There was no sign of the stone.
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“I think I understand why we got that stone from a slave shop,”
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“I think I understand why we got that stone from a slave shop,” said Nepthys.
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She waved down a car and pulled me in.
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The girl was as soft and rosy as the stone’s glow, and she was dressed in a white shift tied at the waist with a belt like a Celtic knot.
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Her arms and legs were wrapped in white linen up to her wrists and ankles, and soft, white leather boots held her feet.
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As soon as I touched her, her eyes opened into mine and she grabbed my wrist.
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In a few minutes, we were getting out a block down from the abandoned church.
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I couldn’t move.
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“Name me,”
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“Name me,” she said.
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I opened my mouth to ask for an explanation, but Nepthys stopped me.
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“Don’t name her ‘What did you say?’, okay?
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‘What did you say?’
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I was at a loss.
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I’d never named anyone before.
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I thought back to one time when I’d been thinking about raising a family and remembered that I’d always liked the name –
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“Amy.”
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“You awaken a magical being of unknown power from an enchanted stone, having purchased her with your own blood from a slave dealer, and you name her ‘Amy’?”
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After she paid the driver, she grabbed my arm, laughing, and we ran down the street.
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“So …back to our garlicky friend?”
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“I suppose so,” said Nepthys, “and you’d better pray to whatever god you think will listen that he won’t care we woke her up.”
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“and you’d better pray to whatever god you think will listen that he won’t care we woke her up.”
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We walked back to the herb stand.
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The vendor stared a little at Amy, his arms pausing in midair as he lit the stand’s little lamp, but we walked right around him and up the wooden stairs.
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When Nepthys opened the little man’s door, he rolled over and grinned to see us, but when Amy walked in, he blanched.
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“What!”
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he screamed.
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“You idiots!
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You woke it up?
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“But …but sir,”
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“But …but sir,” I said, “are you sure she’s no help to you?”
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“are you sure she’s no help to you?”
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“Not if you named it already, you ninny, and I’m sure that you have!
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I heard the pulse already.
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Fools!
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Get out of my sight now – unless you know how to put it back?
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…I thought as much.
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Now leave, before I call the rats on you.”
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We left.
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Nepthys shook his hands at me like he wanted to wrap them around my neck.
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