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“Can any… od you… stand up… or mood?” I said.
“No,” Alice and Vicky said.
Neither could I.
It was the same as it had been with the first time we’d been abducted. The sofas behind us shifted back toward the wall.
I wanted to move in front of the other girls who’d been frozen by the light. At least then they would be able to think.
But I couldn’t move a muscle.
The next few words were going to be tough to hear but they were necessary.
“They are… going to dake us,” I said.
Vicky whimpered. It was a natural response given the situation.
“Shut your… eyes,” I said. “And don’t… open dem until… the light… is gone.”
“What den?” Alice said.
“Then we… give dem hell,” I said.
The sofas and armchairs screeched as they slid across the room and struck the back wall. One of the armchairs flipped up and smashed through the window.
I shut my eyes and hoped it would be enough to block the worst of the light.
I hoped we wouldn’t be abducted again and forced to take new masters.
I hoped we would get out of this alive.
I guess we weren’t so untouchable after all.
9
FIATH
We raised our ales and bowed our heads in respect to our ancestors. It was what we always did when we took the first mouthful of a new pint of ale.
The other Titans seemed a good sort. I knew Kal well already and had grown up with him. Now he was Lord Taw. Strange to think he’d stepped into my shoes when everyone thought I was dead.
I didn’t blame them. He was a good leader.
He told the story of how he came to be in that position and how it had taken his girl, Sirena, to point him in the right direction and make him see how he was going wrong.
It was the same story among all the other Titans.
They were floundering, struggling to get by in their lives until their special human ladies showed up and rescued them.
“Do you think all human females are like ours?” Nighteko said conspiratorially.
“I can’t imagine anyone else is like Maddy,” Chax said.
It took some doing but with enough alcohol poured down their necks, the others began to loosen up in my presence. It happened often with Titans. They felt like they’d known me their entire lives, what with my image up on their walls. Reciting their unbreakable pledges of allegiance to me was a part of growing up.
That was something else I was going to have to fix, I decided. Reduce the way I came across as a deity to the people. It might help Hazel fit more easily into her new role.
“And what’s your story?” Kal asked me, eying me over his glass of ale.
