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- Right in front of my eyes, she turned from a woman into a statue, cold and perfectly still. "What do you want," she whispered, "that I might give you?"
- "First, reparations. A weregild to the victims' families," I said. "I'll provide you with the details for each."
- "Done."
- "Second, this never happens again. One of yours starts up with genocide again, and I'm going to reply in kind. Starting with you. I'll have your word on it."
- Her eyes narrowed further. "Done," she murmured.
- "The little folk," I said. "They shouldn't be in cages. Free them, unharmed, in my name."
- She considered that for a moment, and then nodded. "Anything else?"
- "Some Listerine," I said. "I've got a funny taste in my mouth."
- That last remark drew more anger out of her than anything else that had happened the entire night. Her silver eyes blazed with rage, and I could feel the fury roiling around her. "Our business," she said in a whisper, "is concluded. Get out of my house."
- White Night Chapter 42, Page 459
- "Not quite," I said, and told her what happened, leaving out any mention of Lasciel or Cowl.
- Molly blinked as I finished. "Well. That explains it, then."
- "Explains what?"
- "There were all kinds of little lights going by the windows all night. They didn't upset Mouse. I thought maybe it was some kind of sending, and figured the wards would keep it out." She shook her head. "It must have been all the little faeries."
- "They hang around all the time anyway," I said. "It just takes a lot of them before it's obvious enough to notice." I chewed Cheerios thoughtfully. "More mouths to feed. Guess I'd better call Pizza 'Spress and step up my standing order, or we'll have some kind of teeny faerie clan war over pizza rights on our hands."
- White Night Chapter 43, Page 465
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