"Was that an exam answer you memorized?" He shook his head. "No one likes a keener, Maya. Stuff the commentary or I'll call your brother back."

"I heard that," said a voice from the woods.

"Yeah?" Corey called back. "You know how to avoid hearing things you don't want to? Don't eavesdrop."

"Hard to do when you have super hearing," Ash said as he stepped into the clearing.

"Also hard to do when you won't go very far, in case that Uzi-toting sparrow finds you."

Ash flipped him off and strolled back to the "campfire," taking his time, so we wouldn't make the mistake of thinking he wanted to join us.

"Yeah, you're a sileni," Ash said as he lowered himself onto a log.

"You knew?" Corey said. "Thanks for the 411."

"You never asked."

"I'm asking now, then. What else can you tell me?"

Ash shrugged. "Nothing, really. I know what benandanti, xana, and sileni are, but it doesn't have anything to do with me, so I didn't see the point in studyi

ng up. You're supposed to see visions, which I guess you do. That's your main power. That and charm."

"Charm?"

Another shrug. "Like benandanti have the power of persuasion, sileni have the power of charm. People like them. Doesn't seem as if that one kicked in yet. Maybe someday."

"Hey, I've got charm. It just works better on chicks." He glanced at me. "Right?"

I arched my brows.

"Not you," he said. "I mean chicks I actually like."

Daniel sputtered as my brows went higher.

Corey glared at both of us. "You know what I mean."

"Yes," I said. "Speaking purely from an observational standpoint, you have your charms. Particularly with girls who've been drinking or whose sense of judgment is otherwise impaired. Which probably comes from the satyr angle."

"Very funny. What happened to wanting to make me feel better about this whole vision thing?"

"That was before I discovered you're a Greek god. I don't think you get to feel bad about that."

"Greek god?" He smiled. "I kinda am, aren't I?"

"Great," Daniel muttered. "His ego really needed that."

"A minor Greek god," I said. "Very minor. Possibly with a horse tail. Or goat legs."

Corey reached over to thump me in the arm and I ducked away, laughing.

I could see Ash getting ready to leave again, so I turned to him. "Is there anything else you can tell us? About any of the types?"

He shrugged. "Probably not. Depends on what you already know."

I could just ask him to tell us everything he did, but I had a feeling that the more specific our questions were, the more likely he was to answer. Lengthy discourses weren't his style. Yet another reason to wonder if we really were related after all.

"Can we tell you what we know and you can help us fill in the blanks?" I asked.

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