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Thanatos sighed. “It’s nice to know that I am not the only one she has screwed with.”
Renner smiled. “In the manner of grandmothers everywhere.”
Ming smiled. “Do you have grandparents trying to set you up?”
“Oh. No. I should have said nearly everywhere.” She snagged some spicy chicken and kept eating.
Thanatos looked at her. “Protective parents?”
“No. Their deaths put me in foster care, which is how I ended up at the group home.” She sighed. “I guess on paper, I can see why Fen wouldn’t approve of me. You dodged a bullet.” She started giggling.
Ming walked away, and Renner glanced at Thanatos. “Apologies for the levity.”
He frowned. “So, you have no one to protect you?”
“Sure. Rhymbia, Elspetha, and Altar, as well as friends I have met around the world. I do, however, tend to rub people the wrong way. Folks get competitive with Al.”
“What is your name?” He looked at her with his black eyes, focused and intent.
“Renner?”
“No, your first name.”
“Oh. That’s a little tricky.”
“How so?”
“You will read something into it.”
He smiled. “Please?”
“Fine. Persephone.”
He chuckled. “Really?”
“Who would lie about that? The name is embarrassing.”
He cocked his head. “Why?”
“You can’t abbreviate it and not have it sound stupid.” She kept eating.
His lips moved as he ran through the options, and he smiled. “Effy, Onny?”
She wrinkled her nose.
“Do you have a middle name?”
“Alala.” She sighed. “That was a mouthful for kids in my class. They wouldn’t stop.”
He smiled with understanding. “Got it. Did you go to school here?”
“Um, no. I was way out west.”
“No family?”
She grimaced. “If there was, no one came when they called after the accident.”
“You were in the car?”
