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I couldn’t help being curious about that, and, more to the point, curious how Gina was coping with some of this stuff, as she learned about her new boyfriend. Being involved with a seer so much older than her was probably weird enough?and Loki wasn’t exactly your run-of-the-mill seer. If I had to guess, telling his new girlfriend he’d once belonged to a group of seer terrorists plotting to take down the human race under Revik probably wasn’t high on Loki’s list of confessions, either.

And yeah, if it were me, I’d probably ease Gina into those details, too.

Whatever his exact relationship to the region, Loki was extremely helpful in planning the op, including in educating all of us on the history, culture and layout of Dubai. From what Dalejem and Stanley said, Loki’s basic information on Dubai hadn’t changed all that much. Security was more intense, some of the neighborhoods had expanded, been cleaned up, or made more upscale, but the layout of the city remained more or less intact.

The Waterfront had always been near the top of the food chain. Like a lot of things in Dubai, they created the whole neighborhood out of thin air.

It was that floating aspect that made me stare.

Even the buildings that seemed to rest directly on the water reached to the stars, the highest on The Waterfront being over fifty stories tall.

In a perverse way, it made sense Terian would hide the List seers in such a place?in that it made no sense at all, so it was unlikely anyone would think to look for them here.

I could feel Revik’s light gearing up next to mine as he held my hand. We sat crammed into the back of one of four limousines Terian sent to the nightclub to pick us up.

Clearly, Terian knew Revik had more people outside that club than in it.

Terian also made it clear all those people couldn’t go with us to look at List seers. Revik and I reluctantly agreed, then Revik sent two of those limousines away, filled to the brim with our infiltrators, presumably to an exit point at some other part of the city.

That left a relatively small group of us accompanying Terian to The Waterfront.

Me, Revik. Anale, Chinja, Tenzi, Jax, Holo, Poresh, Stanley, Surli and Dalejem. Two other Children of the Bridge seers joined us, as well. I didn’t know them, but I recognized both of their faces. I knew their names were Baleur and Mansk.

I couldn’t help but be relieved when Kat elected to accompany the others out of the city, before Revik or I even asked?nor could I blame her.

I’d already given Revik the short version, in terms of running into her. I didn’t make the connection around Terian buying her until Revik reminded me.

“She’s on the List,” he murmured near my ear. “So was that male?the other seer Terry bought today. Loki verified it.”

Feeling a mix of reactions go through my light, I only nodded. I couldn’t say much; two of my exes were also on the List.

Revik heard that, well enough to grunt.

When I glanced at him, he only gave me a grim smile.

Returning the smile, I let my eyes shift to Terian, meaning the one with the auburn hair, who sat across from us on the facing bench seat, just behind the driver.

His amber eyes glowed strangely in the running lights. I saw him looking at Dalejem, who happened to be sitting next to him. I was still watching when his hand snaked out. He began massaging the leg of the male seer, exuding enough pain that I flinched.

Dalejem jerked his leg away, shoving at Terian’s hand, but the other seer wouldn’t let go.

“Can I have him, Revi’?” Terian looked at Revik, as Dalejem continued to try and pry Terian’s hand off his leg. “Please?”

“No,” Revik said, his voice cold. “Leave him alone, Terry.”

Terian released the green-eyed seer at once.

I watched Dalejem glare at him, right before he turned that harder look on Revik. I knew it was beyond inappropriate, but when I looked at Terian right then, I almost wanted to laugh. The look of disappointment on his face was just so acute.

I didn’t laugh, of course, but I still had to suppress a smile.

“He’s hungry,” Terian complained. “He’s really hungry, Revi’.”

“Leave him alone, Terry,” Revik repeated, his voice a warning. “That wasn’t a request.”

Terian gestured an acquiescence, but I could feel his disappointment. At the same time, he clearly didn’t want to disobey Revik?presumably because he still wanted our help getting him out of here, badly enough to keep the peace.

I watched him study Dalejem’s face and body through narrowed eyes, like he was drinking in whatever he felt coming off his light.