#rivervale_lodge

After passing crab juice - er, Lemonade around, Connor plops on the floor to listen in, tail swishing but quiet.

Brekke frowns at the picture of the wight...and of the elf. She shakes her head. "What do they call pooka in this?"

Pucks, of course.

Brekke declines the lemonade...hopefully Sally Mae sees the signs that coffee is needed.

Sally Mae gives Connor another hair toss, and fetches coffee, and brings out those still warm buttered biscuits for the others

"Pucks... it was this lab-mouse. Tiny coat!"

A frown again as she sees the picture for the Puck, and she shakes her head. "Somebody has shared what should not be shared, not in this way." She flips to the title page, looking for author and artist.

The art has been almost Froud like sketching on yellowed paper... very 'old style' by mortal standards

written by 'Ida Riley Rathernottel'

Siv has come down, having thrown on some large shorts and a T shirt

"Adam," Siv says "How long have you been seeing odd things?"

No separate name for the artist? Author and artist are one?

And rahter than grab Lemonade, she grabs coffee, as if this is too serious a matter for lemonade and will require duty juice.

So it would appear, either that or the artist is uncredited

She sighs and flips through a few more pages, glancing up at Siv's question.

"Ever since moving here. Is it the water, or something?"

The Fae hounds can sense some tension and move along the group. Oak and Edelweiss have different looks to to the enchanted... their fur almost glows, their eyes shine ... and they look just a bit bigger (And they were huge to begin with)

Brown Dog is Brown dog and mostly competes with Connor for cuteness.

The Faun looks like Almond..kind of.

A sigh. "Adam, when did you receive this book, and how?"

Siv sips her coffee, to Adam it might feel as if he were in a viking hall where giants questioned him on how he came to be here. Despite that it was by Siv's car.

"At the game store."

Siv looks to her mom "Mostly it sells used video games but I understand they have some Role playing games in the back. D&D and the like"

Her eyes widen. "The store. There were other copies of this there?" Concerned.

"N...no? I didn't see any. I didn't look."

"Hm." A nod. "And...you could see the chimera, but could not touch it, nor it you?"

He nods. "Not till Siv gave me this coin. " He shows her. "Shoulda taken the kiss but I was kinda freaked out."

Siv raises her coffee cup to block her features, but a bit of a blush is in the cheeks.

A blink. "The...kiss?" An eyebrow at Siv.

A little line appears between her eyebrows and she shifts her weight.

Siv puts her mug down, "For acting enchantment. I needed him enchanted so we would have SOME protection of the mists. While Adam is a fine fellow, that is the reason I offered." Truth. "He declined. Ouch to my ego, but fine. Instead I gave him the coin, bit of dross with my glamour in it. Again, at the time I thought crab was dead, but we need the mists to be sure. He knew a lot already without.. being enchanted. In truth? it unsettled me that he could see the ruddy crab and us without so much as a glow"

"Hey, there was this giant, vicious attack crab and I couldn't-do- anything about it and you all turned blue and I was a little freaked out, ok?!?!?"

"Anyway, you said the offer was off the table now." He crosses his arms, nearly sulking.

A grumble-rumble from the pup. Apparently he doesn't like this derail!

"That is troubling, that he could see without enchantment." She doesn't seem very troubled at the notion of the offer being off the table. "Adam, there is much that will confuse you about this, I am certain, and normally I would offer more information before questioning you...but your situation is unusual. Where did you live before here, and why have you moved here now?"

A more intent regard of the sidhe-kin.

Sally Mae watches, intrigued perhaps by how they handle kinain here

"Uh, Alpine. Before that I was born in New York, south of West Point. We moved here for dad's work.

"Mm." A pause. "Your parents...would you consider them odd? Unconventional?"

Dagmar clears her throat softly.

"Why does everyone keep asking that? No, they're perfectly normal."

An eyebrow at Dagmar. "Yes?"

"His Dad isn't biological."

Siv drinks her coffee stoicly.

A nod, and she looks back to Adam. "I apologize, but this is important. Do you know your birth-father?"

possibly turning into her mother abit more and more with each sip as she mulls this over.

"No. Mom says they were never really a thing."

An apologetic look at the kinain. "Don't know mine, either, if that helps?"

"Hm. That...may be it." She leans back in her chair and regards the boy as she takes a sip of coffee.

Sally Mae clears her throat.