#bergen_county

"You got it' He says

"Ok, so... I guess we just wait and see if the changes stick."

Zane pauses "Or ..maybe try to create another visit to see if we can learn more.."

The mortal blinks. "You can do that?"

"Maybe... if I cast on you, make you forget... blank your mind, will he try again?" Pacing

"Woah, hey, I can't remember all of it anyway,and I..... I want to remember what I can."

"No dude, it would surpress your memories, not wipe them away... but if it could fool him... " He paces "Damn I wish I were as smart as dad"

A knock on the front door.

"I'd better get that...." Adam thunders down the stairs and answers the door.

It's Piper! The small satyress is dressed for the weather with a puffy coat, scarf, and a santa hat tilted jauntily over her horns. She rubs her hands, pink from the cold, but grins at Adam when he opens the door. "Hey there, Stranger! Just the man I was hoping to see. Mind if I stop in for a few?"

"N...no! That'd be great. Come on in.... Zane's upstairs."

PIper can sense a bit of lingering glamour about the place

"Come on up." Adam leads the way.

"Oh! Okay." She rolls her eyes a bit, but is grinning. "Because I don't see him enough at home." She steps in, and pauses, head tilted to one side curiously, as though trying to pick out the tune to a song playing in the next room over. "Are you, um... magicking? I hate to interrupt anything." She pauses at the foot of the stairs. "I mean, if you and Zane, um. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just I don't want to mess with your vibe, you know?"

"No, no, no..... come on, I'll show you. Weird shit's been happening today....." And up to his room, and in. "Zane, Piper's here."

She follows him up and into the room, pausing to take in the teenage-boy-bedroom-vibe. "Hey, Z. What's up?"

Zane says "Stuff you wouldn't BELIEVE... you ever hear of a mortal being transformed into a true changeling? Not possesed, themselves, but changelings?"

.... and the magnificent, large, tumbled bed with red and silver linens..... and the tiny succubus.

"Uh, outside of what the sidhe do? Can't say I have..." She moves over to run her hand lightly over the bedspread with a low whistle. "This has to be, what, like 2000 threadcount? Literally woven by magic."

Nabuni rolls on it "It's niiiice"

Zane says "Apparently, we had a close encounter of the pure fae kind that somehow...well, he was the focal point for something so big that if it had really gotten out we'd be talking ghostbuster twinkies"

Adam seems transfixed.

Distracted for a moment as she giggles at the chimera rolling around as if drunk on the glamour residue, but she sobers a bit at Zane's description. "If they have the power to make a mortal into a true fae though.... I mean, that's... amazing. Who WOULDN'T want that? For their family, their friends, their lover..."

"Well, true changeling anyway, but yes... I mean, mom as a full satyr would make her happy, but this wasn't even a kinian changed , not just one.. .I think Adam's mom was a satyress." A wistful look. Ah, yes. Zane does check that milf out. He tries to hide it from Adam, but Piper has noticed.

Adam rolls his eyes, but says to Piper. "It happened to me, this morning. I was Sidhe, for real. I could to magic as easy as if I just thought about it. Nab was full-sized, and my parents were Fae too, and Lily.... Lily is like me, but sluagh-blooded."

"Uh, was Lily kinain before? Or did she suddenly, um. Gain this, somehow?"

" She was kinian before I think, but we didn't know what type" Zane says looking to Adam

"I'm not sure. One of Lucia's siblings was Enchanting her, but.... Yeah, we didn't know. Now we do."

Zane gets a troubled look.

"Well, that's... something, alright." She plops onto the bed, leaning her head onto a hand and looking thoughtful. "So, what's the problem? You all look like someone ran over your cat. Isn't finding out about Lily good news? And the rest - I mean, it sounds like a FUN experience, even if we don't know how..."

"Tell her the whole thing, Adam. We could use her brains. Tell her about the offer..."

She looks a little dubious - as if trying to figure out if that's a sideways dig at her from Zane, but is ready to listen.

Adam nods, and does. He sits on the bed next to her and tells her everything he can remember.

She is excited at first, squeaking at the news of him exploring his powers and such, but when he mentions the bit about Lily, she goes silent. "That's. um... Not Good. Should you go talk to the Chief?"

"Already went. She wasn't there, so we told Siv. And, uh, Dagmar."

"yeah, Siv had us do this investigation and she's looking into ways to shield the house"

"Do you think that this Sidhe - whoever he is, if he even really IS Nadine's dad... has some sort of link to you?"

A frown. "No idea, really.... We thought maybe the red and silver meant Fiona? But then it went black and gold, so Varich...."

"But the fact the sheets stayed silver and red, well, Siv thinks that means who he might be related to" Zane says

"But some of the stuff that changed went back again.... or close to it."

She looks troubled. "This is Something Else entirely. Way out of my ken. I mean - do you have any sidhe in your family? You have to have gotten your sidhe blood somewhere, right? And probably not too far back, if it's as strong as it is... "

"It was just my mom and me for years, then she met dad. He adopted me. But they don't really have family either; distant cousins I've never met from out of state." A shrug. "Yeah, I mean..... I could have Sidhe in the family, but how would I know?"

"I mean, you obviously DO have a bio-dad out there. Have you ever thought about trying to find him? No offense if you didn't. I didn't, after all."

Adam shakes his head. "I wouldn't have the first idea where to start. I guess somewhere upstate, maybe near where I was born? But it's not like he stuck around or anything. My dad's way more important to me."

"Yeah, Mr. Thomas Is pretty cool, but I guess we're just.. you know the blood" The satyr ponders "Got to be a way to ..." A finger snap "Your blood!"

"Whoa, hold up there. Isn't that what those jerk-sidhe at Pennons wanted to do?"

"Yeah."

"I didn't think they were jerks, just..... " A shrug. "Not sure I want to bleed for 'em, you know?"

"Yeah, well, I'm not a jerk sidhe at pennons. I'm a jerk good friend here"

"What do you know about blood magic, though?" A raised brow. "That's like... super creepy."