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"Are you okay?" Amber asked, her brow creasing.
"I'm not going anywhere near any sìth."
"You were just near one," Amber pointed out, nodding in Izban's direction.
"That's different. I'm not going into a sìth palace. Trust me, it'll hurt your cause."
Macey frowned at the mouse, trying to make sense of what she was saying.
"But you'll be here when we come back out?" she asked, hating the idea of having another ally just vanishing after they went in somewhere.
"Yes. You're not done with me yet," Luch replied. "There's far more to our story together."
Macey didn't comment. She didn't really know how. The wording was odd to say the least, and made it sound a little ominous. There was very little doubt that Luch was more than just the mouse she claimed to be.
"Alright then, we go in there, and Amber and I take the lead. Luch stays behind," she changed the plan.
"I'll stay with her," Jared put in. "That way you'll know for sure she'll still be here."
Luch made an odd huffing sound. "I'm hardly going to run off, incubus. And if you think you could keep me here if I didn't want to be, then you have another thing coming."
"I'm sure you could give anyone the slip," Jared responded. "But realistically, it's safer for us all if we're not split up too much."
"That is true. Though I don't think Mahoun can touch me." The mouse seemed confident about that, and Macey supposed she should be. There was no telling how long she'd lived in the Voice's fortress, but it was long enough to have known Amber the whole time she was imprisoned, and to have a good knowledge of the whole place.
"Will you be okay?" Macey asked Jared, turning to face him. She didn't like the idea of leaving him behind, but the logic was sound. She didn't want Luch escaping until she had some answers from the woman.
Mostly about what she really was, because a mouse shifter certainly wasn't the answer. Not with how at odds she'd been with Aunt Nessie. Or how knowledgeable she'd seemed with Fedelm. If Macey had been a younger, and less worldly, kelpie, she'd have thought Luch was one of the gods she knew didn't really exist. In some ways, it was the only explanation.
"Yes," he said, stepping towards her. He cupped Macey's cheek in his hand and lifted her face so she was looking up at him. "I'll always be okay so long as I know you're safe."
Jared leaned down and captured her lips with his, giving her the sweetest kiss she'd ever received from her incubus. He wasn't normally this restrained. Her captivity really must have been hard on him.
"Alright, you two, time to get going," Flint said, breaking Jared and Macey apart.
"Just because you want some time with her," Jared teased.
"You're damn right, I do. But maybe not when we're waiting outside the sìth's home. I'd rather not be at their mercy any longer than necessary."
"Flint's right," Izban added. "For the same reasons you don't want to go in there." He smirked at Jared.
"Wait, what's going on? Why don't you want to go in there?" Macey demanded of her incubus.
"The sìth view men as playthings if you will. And we're no exception," Cam answered instead, exchanging a quick glance with Flint.
"They also like to share," Luch piped up, drawing dirty look from the two men. The mouse shrugged. "It's true. They'll see Macey and Amber as having surplus men, and therefore, those men are fair game. And an incubus… well, there's not a woman on earth who wouldn't want one of those in her bed."
Macey growled, a sound she was pretty sure she'd never made before. But no one was even going to suggest touching any of her men.
"I didn't say I'd do anything about it," Luch added hastily, holding up her hands in surrender. "But doesn't mean I'm not thinking it."
"Find your own," Macey snapped.
"Oh, I just might. You've given me some rather interesting ideas, kelpie." The mouse sounded almost too happy, but Macey didn't wait for clarification.
"Erm..."
"Just where did you
