For a minute, all Verite does is stare at me, mouth agape, while Verdandi claps and laughs. Keep pulling shit like that and my secret isn't gonna be a secret for long. Shouldda just let it fall, but that would have been a waste and possibly loss of a job.

"That was excellent, Melania!" Verdandi exclaims as Verite raises her glass to me. Laughing I return Verites' gesture and lift my mug, "Probably couldn't do that again if I tried," I lie, taking a long sip from my mug. Gotta watch the showing off.Normal humans can't do that stuff.Verdandi touches my arm saying I'm hired, and again I'm reminded of laying in an apple orchard under the sun as she smiles. Laughing I let out a small howl of excitement as she offers me any drink I want and asks where Nanse-kam was from.Judging by the scents of them all, The stuff called fire Whiskey seems the most pungent and is probably the strongest, and she's having one, which means I should be fine considering I generally can handle more than most humans, so I knock back one of the snake bites and set the shot glass in front of the whiskey bottle,"That, please,"I grin,"Oh and he said he was from the Abbey on the other side of town? Brother Nanse-kam was his name. Real nice guy with a real nice smile."