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of Tinker and Little Horse.
Sipping his honeyed tea, he remembered Little Horse's birth and childhood, how he grew in leaps and
bounds between Wolf's visits back home, until he was old enough to be part of Wolf's household. He


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brought with him the quiet affection that Wolf missed from his parent's home. Bitterness at Sparrow
tried to crowd in, but Wolf ignored the temptation to dwell on those thoughts. He had only a short time
left, and he wasn't going to waste it on her.
He turned his thoughts to Tinker. A human, raised on Elfhome, she was a delightful mix of human
sensibility steeped in elfin culture. They had met once years ago, when she saved him from a saurus. She
saved him again from a recent oni assassination attempt. The days afterwards, as she struggled to keep
him alive, she proved her intelligence, leadership, compassion, and fortitude. Once he realized that she
was everything that he wanted in a domi, it was as if floodgates had opened in his heart, letting loose a
flood of emotions he hadn't suspected himself capable of. Never had he wanted so much to protect
another person. The very humanity that he loved in her made her butterfly fragile. The only way to keep
her brightness shining was to make her an elf. At the time, he regretted the necessity, but no longer. As a
human, Tinker would have either been taken away from the home she loved by the NSA, or she wouldn't
have survived Sparrow's betrayal. If he had any regrets it was trusting Sparrow and underestimating the
oni.
Much as he'd like to continue dwelling on the good memories of his beloved, there was too much to do.
Reluctantly, Wolf Who Rules blew out the candle, stood, and bowed to the god.
The oni had forced his domi into building a gateway between their world and the neighborhood of Turtle
Creek. Since the oni were gaining access to Earth (and ultimately Elfhome) via the orbital hyperphase
gate тАУ Tinker used her gate to destroy the one in orbit. Unfortunately there were side effects not even his
beloved could explain. Pittsburgh was now stuck on Elfhome. Turtle Creek had melted into liquid
confusion. And something, most likely the orbital gate, had fallen from the sky like shooting stars. It left
them with no way to return the humans to Earth, and an unknown number of oni among them.
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