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.If we drop much closer to the equator,we'll be out of range."Tinker then retreated to work on printing out the spell.Jin tracked her downa short time later."Gracie wanted to be sure you got something to eat." Jin held out acontainer."Pft." Tinker waved away the offering."If I eat, I'll have to figure out howyou go to the bathroom up here, and I figure that's not going to be a pleasantactivity."Jin laughed, still holding out the cup-sized container."You have to eat.""What is it?""Cream of tomato soup.""Oh! My favorite." She took the container and found that it was warm.As shesnapped it open and sipped the rich creamy broth, Jin swung up to perch acrossfrom her."It was your father's favorite too." Jin sipped his own soup."I can see Leoin you.Hear him in the way you talk.It makes me happy.""Why?""Leo was my best friend for many years.I'm glad that in a way, he is livingon through you.""If he was such a good friend, why did you kill him?"She expected him to deny it, but he only gazed at her, sorrow filling hiseyes."I I made a mistake.We never told Leo that we were tengu.And he never toldus at least, not until it was too late that he was elfin.We kept oursecrets from one another, and in the end, it killed Leo.""I don't understand," Tinker said."Leo and I met at M.I.T.We both had radical ideas, ones that made usunpopular.We believed that magic existed that there were other realms thatcould be visited via magical portals.Of course, we had the proof in our veryblood, but that we never told anyone, even each other." Jin sighed, shakinghis head."It seems so obvious now.Dufae.How did we miss it?"Page 221ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"What really happened? My grandfather never told me details.""When Leo showed us his gate design, a possibility opened up to us.Aparadise for the tengu.It became the flock dream, a bright promise at the endof a path through dark woods full of unseen danger.To be able to chose one'smate out of love, and not a carefully ordered breeding plan.To be able tofly.To walk under the sun in our true form, and not to be always hidden.Iwent to the kitsune, who are powerful in the Chinese government and talked tothem about funding.They involved other parties.It was dangerous, I know, butI thought I understood all the factors.What I didn't know was Leo was an elf that he knew exactly what the oni were and that he wouldn't cooperate withthem.""Halfway through the meeting with the investors, Leo just freaked.He toldthem that he would never help the oni build a gate.And worse, he told themwhy.As much as the elves feared the oni, the oni of Earth feared the elves.He stormed out the meeting.I went after him.We were arguing " Jin fellsilent for a minute."It happened so fast.One moment he was standing besideme on the street corner, arguing with me and the next he was dead in themiddle of the road.I didn't even see what happened."Jin sighed."I wasn't driving the car.I didn't push him out into its path.But I brought death to him.And I can only say I'm sorry.And I am truly am.Iloved him like a brother."All Tinker could imagine was Nathan out on the road, his blood on her.Ohgods, she didn't want to cry again.She squeezed her eyes tight on the suddenburn of tears."How do you deal with knowing that you fucked up so bad? Thatyou killed someone that loved you? That trusted you?""Accept the truth of what happened, and then forgive yourself.They would ifthey could."She laughed bitterly."Why would they?""Because they loved you."She pressed the palms of her hands into her eyes, and struggled to get backin control of herself.The truth of what happened? The truth was that she hadignored all the warning signs with Nathan.She had to pay attention, thinkabout the consequences of her actions.Like now she was desperately tryingto get back to Pittsburgh, but what if she was totally wrong? With suddenterror, she saw the implications of her actions.She was takingDahe Hao toPittsburgh.She might be saving the human crew, but she was dooming the tengucrew to genocide."I'm worried about what will happen to the tengu when we reach Pittsburgh.The elves are killing people that they just suspect are oni.And I knowtheywill see tengu as oni.""You still don't think of yourself as one of them?""No, not really.Wait how do you know?""For the last week, all we've dreamed about is you all the weird twists andturns your life has taken." Jin picking up the camera.Cloudwalker had troubletracking the hyperactive dragon through the trailer and caught her and Pony inthe viewfinder instead."We've seen what you've done to keep yoursekashasafe."Page 222ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"You know everything?" She wondered if this was why she been having suchhorrible nightmares lately."Enough.Your fight with the foo dogs.Your transformation from a human.Yourfight with the oni lord." Jin played a few seconds of recording as Ponyacknowledged one of her requests with a slight bow."This is just proof ofwhat we already knew.You're the Wind Clandomi, guarded by a Hand ofsekasha ,one of which is another dreamer
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