Page 13 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

He chuckles, “I feel like I probably need to say that to you more than you need to say it to us.”

I shrug, “Probably.”

“Well, they certainly are protective over you, aren’t they?” Ernie says from behind me.

“Told ya,” Sully replies.

I roll my eyes. “See you in a bit, guys.”

“Wait,” Raiden says, and I look at him questioningly, “Erm, this is a, er, difficult question?”

I raise my eyebrows, now really curious, “Yeah?”

“You’ve mentioned how HID paid you pretty poorly, and I don’t imagine that your job at Bobby’s paid that great,” he pauses, clearly struggling to phrase the question that he wants to ask.

I decide to help him out, “We don’t play for money. They have more than they could ever possibly need, and I have none. Had none. We play for favors, which, as you can imagine with this lot, are extremely valuable, and they sometimes need my unique skill set. Sometimes we play for interesting objects, but it’s for fun mostly. Although, I do have a nice stack of favors courtesy of the people I play with.”

“That’s incredibly smart,” Reed replies, looking suitably impressed.

I smirk, “I know, I have yet to use any of mine. I think they have maybe used a couple earned from me. I rarely lose though.”

“Come on, Neith. We have made them wait long enough, they will be three sheets to the wind, and utterly useless if we don’t get in there soon,” Sully says, using one of his favorite sayings.

I wave at the guys and then follow Sully and Ernie, who I’m surprised stuck around, behind the bar and back to Sully’s office. As usual when I come into Sully’s office, it looks completely different to how it looked the last time I was in here. This time, it’s set up so that we can play poker.

“Hey guys!” I greet the others happily.

“Neith, it’s been a few weeks,” Draith greets me. He is the clan leader of the northern hemisphere dragons. I do mean the entire northern hemisphere, he is insanely powerful, and in control of thousands of dragons.

“Sorry, Drai. HID had me chasing my tail, and then shit hit the fan. You know how it is,” I shrug as I take my usual seat and pick up the drink already waiting for me.

“I do wish that you would let us take care of your HID problem for you, dear,” Murray offers again.

She is the extremely powerful, but unassuming leader of the Mages and everything that is a subclass of that, like witches’ warlocks, necromancers, anything that uses magic in that way. She runs this territory like a well-oiled machine. She is ruthless when she needs to be but has the kindest soul I think I have seen in a leader for a long time. She’s beautiful in an understated way.

“She’s right,” Ahren agrees.

Alpha of this territory’s shifters, he is a wolf, but he is alpha for all of the shifters in this part of the world, whether that’s a wolf, bunny, or the more mystical shifter like a griffin or a kitsune. It doesn’t include shifters like Griff, who is a gargoyleand technically shifts. He is alpha over animal shifters only. Except for dragons, they patrol themselves and have a different hierarchy and system than the shifters and a different power level. It takes a dragon alpha to be able to make other dragons fall in line.

Ahren continues, “I could send a few of my shifters over to them and it would be dealt with quicker than you can say thank you, bestest big brother.”

I chuckle, he pretty much adopted me as a little sister on the first day that we met.

“You know that if you did that, you could potentially start a war with the humans and the supes. HID are literally chomping at the bit for an excuse to start a war,” I point out, and their faces become serious as they all remember why I’ve said no to their offers of help before. I then look at Sully, “You didn’t tell them?”

He shakes his head with a smile, “No, I thought you would like to. Well, I told Ernie.”

“You tell Ernie everything. You two are like gossiping old women,” I tell him with a raised eyebrow and a smile when neither of them denies it.

“Tell us what?” Draith asks.

“I am not working for HID anymore, they tried to have me killed and I discovered that they are incredibly corrupt. Although no one will be surprised to hear that. SID now has a team working on it, and I am now officially working for them with a team,” I explain.

Their smiles are massive, and I have to stand up as they all surround me with big hugs.

“Ah, I’m so pleased for you,” Murray says proudly.

“Thanks, guys,” I reply, as everyone lets go and takes their seats again. “Let’s play.”

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