Taryn had a moment when the other shoe dropped. Of course there had to be a reason Hell was able to threaten the Sidh. There must be a claim. A claim recognised by both parties. That was how all these immortals worked. The sidhe had arrived, a very long time ago, in a place inhabited by demons. They drove the demons off, partitioned and—Taryn guessed she could say—terraformed the land. It was why there was an Exiles’ Gate with nothing on the other side of it. They’d come from somewhere else, exiles who arrived as colonists. Then, in time, someone more powerful than demons enslaved the
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