“The women told us he does.”

“He is curious,” I said wincing as the transport careened much too close to the wall. “Men with Earth breeders in their line seem more curious. Christof has Earth breeders and he was always the most curious Brother.”

The men were confused. They didn’t know a “Christof”. “He is Damien’s Brother,” I answered. “He is the fourth Brother in my family.”

Their faces darkened and they looked angry suddenly.

“He should have known better then,” the lead Brother said firmly. “Once he knew he was the offspring of a slave he never should have continued to participate. He should have made it stop.”

A N G E L A ‘s L I B R A R Y

as one of the men made a sharp sound. Rose and I were ignored as

said and then it

transport. One of them managed to get past the air shield and it came at Rose and me, jaws open. Brand sliced it in

twitched and writhed in two pieces for several moments before

in volumes about the nasty creatures. Thom called them giles. I vaguely remembered reading about giles. The readings I’d done had noted them as pests in the Lowlands where water was plentiful.

Rose whispered clinging to me. She looked as

good

“We will be okay.”

wide and she didn’t look like she particularly believed that statement. We were tearing though a poorly lit cave with our friend tied on a transport behind us. Things

giles the men stayed on alert. I was happy they didn’t want to talk to us. I wasn’t that comfortable with men other than Damien and his Brothers. It would probably take time for me to get over that

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