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Music The first few moments were a blur of the snarling of a gigantic beast with golden fur.

The shrieking of my sisters, the blistering cold cascading into the room,

and my father's terror-stricken face. Somehow I wound up in front of my sisters, even as the

creature reared onto its hind legs and bellowed through a moor full of fangs.

Murderers! But it was another word that echoed through me.

Fairy.

Who killed him?

The creature stalked towards us.

I stared into those jade eyes.

I did.

It was that flash of understanding

that had me angling my remaining knife at the beast.

What is the payment the

treaty requires? His eyes didn't leave my face, as he said.

A life for a life. Any unprovoked attacks on fairy kind by humans are to be paid only by a human

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