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“You didn’t break your legs,” Zero said. “You sound like a cow in a mud flat.”
mean, JinYeong is an annoying little git, but he’s our annoying little git, and no one should be allowed to bother him except us.
“Pet,” said Zero. “You’re a stray. Don’t bring home strays of your own.”
“You’re too flamin’ pretty,” I said. My voice sounded choked. “Don’t know why someone doesn’t punch you in the face.”
“Hang on, vampires can love people?” I demanded. Skinny, nose-in-the-air JinYeong in love with someone? “Rubbish! JinYeong’s too much in love with himself to fall in love with anyone else!”
“I know,” he said. “Perhaps that’s one of the reasons we find humans so repulsive—there’s always one hidden element to them that we can’t control.”
More than that, I’d seen the way the golden fae treated him, and now that I knew how he’d been turned, it seemed like a tenuous connection between our respective human and once human states had been formed. I didn’t much care for that.
“I would like to point out that not all problems can be solved by tea,” said Athelas. “And yet, at the risk of undermining that, yes, I would.”
“He said,” murmured Athelas, “that although you dislike the scent now, in time you will come to associate it with him. He says that one day you will find yourself smiling, although you don’t know why, because you smelled this scent and involuntarily thought of him.”
