Part 36 (1/2)
”Well, I don't know about that,” said Selwyn ”But thisit After all Maybe that is what got hi else Some other idea
”Your Virtue isn't Malleability, is it?” I said
Selwyn looked surprised ”How did you know that?” he said He pulled his sleeve back and showedWhich I supposed helped hiuess, I suppose People don't know you can turn into a cat, do they?” I said I crossedat him
”Some people do,” he said
”Does Veruschka? Do the twins?” I asked
”I would think,” said Selwyn, ”that anything Veruschka knows the twins must also know You saw her cozy up to them It's only a matter of time before she becomes one of themperhaps she'll have red eyes then too”
I expelled ed before my face
”One last question Before I coht of the party, you were all clean shaven, and now” I looked at his scruffy-looking clothing and his stubbly chin, ”you're not”
Selwyn said, ”I went to go investigate the Lenoirand I got trappedsoht this You don't have to go to Ravenseal”
He was trying to get me to see reason The truth That I was free
”But don't you see,” I said, ”the shenanigans”
I looked over at the place where the Dioscuri were at; I thought I had heard so But ust
”If Veruschka traded away her first pick, and you just happened to go ,” I said, ”I mean to say, the two events are awfully coincidental, don't you think? And if she knows that you're a panther”
”She doesn't; but the twins do,” said Selwyn
”Then it's the The twins found black hairs, Selwyn, on Mr Pendderwenn's body Your black hairs”
The whole thing gave
”They know you can transfor to pin his murder on you What slashed Pendderwenn up, anyway?
Selwyn looked, I thought, significantly, when he turned to stare at the ht they were incorporeal,” I said, ”that the Dioscuri could not be touched or do the touching”
”What do you know about them?” he asked
”I know that they have a hive mind, whatever that s”
”Do you knohat the Dioscuri are?” said Selwyn
”I don't But if they have longtime Are they Seers?” I said
”The Dioscuri are people Terrible people I can't say any and this is the whole point” said Selwyn ”When a coven Hives, breaks away fros must happenforms must be filled out and so forth It is presided over by the Master House It is al They send skilled Readers The Dioscuri”
”You mean the twins and the Dioscuri and the Master House” I said
”They're all interrelated,” said Selwyn ”That's right But it's more complicated than that If you will follow o in there They're sick They do thingsto your mind, Selwyn,” I said ”I've had experiences I saw theonized over They were disgusting, foul, awful They scared the you-knohat out of o in there I can't”
But Selwyn had a card to play, the red ht feel that way,” he said ”So I will tell you everything that I know Then can we go?”
I shook my head ”No,” I said ”Besides, that depends”
”On what?” he said
”Even Maria was afraid of them, Selwyn,” I said ”I saw her The Dioscuri are terrible She ran away Asher has been helping me scry”
”Has he?” Selwyn said
”It's what I've been doing unknowingly for the last fourvoices I saw you At least, I think it was you You've been stalking me,” I said
”But only to protect you,” said Selwyn He didn't show an ounce of re I think you are supposed to protect sthey're after me, Selwyn, the Dioscuri I'm almost certain of it,” I said
But he just shook his head ”They can't affect you,” he said ”I mean, they can affect you, but not in that way They can't touch you You don't have to worry about the my mind,” I said
I was alo into the et out of Rome Leave Europe Get away from it all The Dioscuri The Lenoir The other Wiccans
But Selouldn't hear of it He was adao in there,” he said ”I need to find out what happened to your parents And so do you And I need to tell you the rest of o on
”Seventeen years ago, two things happened Your parents were killed That's one And I think I knohy It's because of the other thing that happened, Halsey Rookmaaker The second part They wouldn't beco you two have in common, your mother and yourself, besides your Wiccan Mark She was adamant She insisted they hive Your parents were part of Pendderwenn House, you see But with you in the mix that made thirteen True, you weren't Initiated yet, but you had been wiccaned I was there at your true Wiccaning It's like a baptisical spirits; and you are one Max had Initiated me He was one of theJulius couldn't stand It was an ill-disguised resentment that Pendderas a puppet Head A flunky of Ravenseal Just Adept And a man to boot That had only happened one tiht, but Julius didn't have the skill to lead it When suddenly the Rookmaakers wanted out But the rules must be obeyed and the Master House sent for They ca with the Dioscuri The twins okayed the Hiving They read your parents' minds”
”Those two monsters violated my parents' minds?” I said ”No wonder they looked at , Selwyn The twins know so I need to know Or I don't know”