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“We’ll figure it out, Macey.” He stepped forwards and cupped her face in one of his hands, lifting her chin slightly so their eyes met. “We love you. All of us. We’ll figure out what’s going on inside you and we’ll do our best to make it right.”
“I love you too. All of you.” And she loved how he’d included the others, even if they weren’t actually there with them anymore.
“Exactly. Now, let’s get going and we can sort out inner-Macey later.”
“Inner-Macey?” She snorted without meaning to. “Are you seriously going to call it that?”
“It’s what makes the most sense.” Jared shrugged. “Now, after you.” He waved towards the path they’d landed next to.
“No way. We go together, or I’m staying here.”
“You were the one who insisted on coming with me,” Jared pointed out, a smug note in his voice.
“Stop being right,” she muttered.
Jared held out his hand and she took it, enjoying the warm feel of his skin against hers. In all the daydreams she’d had while living in the Loch, this hadn’t been one of them. None of this had. And while the bad things weren’t exactly great, the good that came with it was definitely worth it.
“You do know where we’re going, right?” she asked him.
“Of course.”
“Care to enlighten me?” she prompted after he chose to ignore her for a moment.
“How familiar are you with Belgian geography?” Jared sounded amused and she was tempted to stop walking and cross her arms to get him to pay proper attention to her.
“Not at all. Are you trying to tell me…”
“That we’re in Belgium? Yes.”
“But why?”
“I have some friends here.”
“Other incubi?” she asked after a pause.
“No. I don’t really know any other incubi.”
“Then how do you know how to use your powers?” She frowned, trying to imagine how she’d have managed as a youngling without older kelpies to teach her what to do. Basically, she wouldn’t have gotten anywhere.
“Trial and error.” Jared shrugged as he carried on walking. “For my incubi powers anyway. The people we’re going to see now are who taught me how to work with earth.”
“People?”
“You’re full of questions today,” Jared teased.
“I wonder why,” she muttered.
“We’re going to see the kabouter.”
“Bless you?” Macey frowned in confusion.
Jared laughed. “No, ca-bow-ter,” he said slowly. “Gnomes,” he added when he noticed her confused face.
“Then why didn’t you just say that?”
“Do you like being called a mythical water horse?”
Macey pouted but conceded the point. She just wanted to kick something whenever anyone used that to describe her.
