Chapter 63: Helios

"You recognized me." I close the distance between us though she backpedals slightly, nervous, despite the fact she's the one who came to see me.

"Yes," she says, the hand holding her dead lighter in front of her shaking. Her voice barely rises above a whisper. I come to a halt, not wanting to scare her off, but needing to know what she knows. And who she is, exactly.

"You're Steam Union?" Where is Piers? He obviously didn't find her, off on a goose chase, at this point. Or pursuing the girl's sorcerer friend, more likely. He seemed less inclined to talk to us. What's different about her?

"I don't know what that means," she says, voice rising a little. She's a lovely thing, delicate and slim, with exotic features that make me think of Greece. "What's Steam Union?"

Well, that's not helpful.

"You're a wolf," she says. "A blonde wolf. But you have blonde hair as a human, too, only it's black right now." She seems confused. "And you travel with her a lot."