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  1. "Incoming!" he shrilled, and I held out my hand, fingers flat and palm up. He alighted in the center of my palm. I could barely feel his weight, but the sense, the aura of him ran through my skin like a tiny electric current. He stared fearlessly at my eyes - the fae have no souls to gaze upon, and they could not fathom a mortal's soul, even if they could see it.
  2. "Okay!" Toot said. "I talked to Blueblossom, who talked to Rednose, who talked to Meg O' Aspens, who said that Goldeneyes said that he was riding the pizza car when it came here last night!" Toot thrust out his chest proudly.
  3. "Pizza car?" I asked, bewildered.
  4. "Pizza!" Toot cried, jubilant. "Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!" His wings fluttered again, and I tried to blink the damned faery dust out of my eyes before I started sneezing.
  5. "Faeries like pizza?" I asked.
  6. "Oh, Harry," Toot said breathlessly. "Haven't you ever had pizza before?"
  7. "Of course I have," I said.
  8. Toot looked wounded. "And you didn't share?"
  9. I sighed. "Look. Maybe I can bring you guys some pizza sometime soon, to thank you for your help. "
  10. Toot leapt about in glee, hopping from one fingertip to the other. "Yes! Yes! Wait until I tell them! We'll see who laughs at Toot-toot next time!"
  11. "Toot," I said, trying to calm him, "did he see anything else?"
  12. Toot tittered, his expression sly and suggestive. "He said that there were mortals sporting and that they needed pizza to regain their strength!"
  13. "Which delivery place, Toot?"
  14. The faery blinked and stared at me as though I were hopelessly stupid. "Harry. The pizza truck. " And then he darted off skyward, vanishing into the trees above.
  15. I sighed and nodded. Toot wouldn't know the difference between Domino's and Pizza Hut. He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read - most faeries were studiously averse to print.
  16. So, I had two pieces of information. One, someone had ordered a pizza to be delivered here. That meant two things. First, that someone was here last night. Second, that someone had seen them and talked to them. Maybe I could track down the pizza driver, and ask if he had seen Victor Sells.
  17. The second piece of information had been Toot's reference to sporting. Faeries didn't think too much of mortals' idea of "sporting" unless there was a lot of nudity and lust involved. They had a penchant for shadowing necking teenagers and playing tricks on them. So Victor had been here with a lover of some kind, for there to be any "sport" going on.
  18. I was beginning to think that Monica Sells was in denial. Her husband wasn't wandering around learning to be a sorcerer, spooky scorpion talismans notwithstanding. He was lurking about his love nest with a girlfriend, like any other husband bored with a timid and domestic wife might do under pressure. It wasn't admirable, but I guess I could understand the motivations that could cause it.
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  20. Storm Front Chapter 6, Page 67-68
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