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With his assessment, I could ignore my stomach no longer, and I, too, bit into the food.
“I didn’t take you all for drama queens,” Charlie commented, a humorous glint in his eyes as he watched us. “I promise I won’t poison you until after I get paid.”
His laugh assured me it was a joke.
“What is this delicacy called, Charlie?” Savida asked, his wings flapping excitedly behind him.
He laughed again. “I wouldn’t call it a delicacy. It’s a ham and cheese toastie.”
He pointed out the ingredients, the ham and the cheese and the toast, but knowing that the thin pink square was meat both confused and repulsed me. Meat should look like meat.
When we had all taken a few bites, Charlie began asking more questions. “So, you’re here to find a human named Margaret. I’m assuming you saw her in a vision like you saw me?”
Daithi tilted his head in acknowledgment and lowered his toastie to his plate, answering Charlie, “You are correct to assume that. However, unlike the vision in which I saw you, Margaret felt distant, the vision unclear.”
“What does she look like? Were there any distinguishing buildings or features in the dream that I might recognize? Something to help locate her?”
Daithi closed his eyes, no doubt reliving the vision in which he saw her. “She has pale skin, as you do, perhaps even lighter. Her eyes are purple, and she has yellow hair. She looked … young.”
“Purple eyes,” Charlie mumbled and looked at me. “And young? How young?”
“In my vision, she looked like a child.”
Although I had already heard this, my stomach sank.
“What?” Charlie glared. “Not for all the money in the world would I hand a kid over to alien slave traders or pedophiles.” Although his eyes were angry and his words accusing, it reassured me of his honor and morality. He was trustworthy. I relaxed my guard slightly, my shoulders falling.
Daithi barely blinked at the accusations. “We don’t appreciate the connotations of the word ‘alien’. We prefer otherworlders.”
Charlie rolled his eyes. “Noted.”
“What is a pedophile?” Savida asked.
“Someone that sexually abuses kids.”
We all gasped and unanimously denied vehemently. “No.”
“Charlie, we are not any of those things. We don’t want to harm her,” Daithi promised.
Charlie didn’t sound convinced. “Then why do you need to find her? Is she in trouble? Buried like Savida was?”
Daithi shook his head. “I did not sense that.”
“Then why are you looking for her?”
Daithi paused, searching for the right words. “Because she is important to one of us.”
He looked around the table, staring at us as though our faces would spell it out. “Why is she important?”
“Charlie, can you not trust that we mean her no harm and only seek to meet her?” Daithi sighed, exasperation in his voice but not in his expression.
“I think the real question is, why won’t you tell me? Is she the love child of one of you? Is this the otherworlder edition ofLong Lost Family?” He paused, then gasped, “Is she my daughter? In the future? Is this some kind ofTerminatorshit?”
Savida chuckled. “She isn’t anyone’s daughter.”
“Is she the heir to a kingdom? Are you going to help her take back the throne or kill her so you can rule?”
“You do not give up, human,” I grumbled.
