Undone

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To Cynthia Clarke, for services above and beyond!

My friends P. N. Elrod, Sharon Sams-Adams, and the Time Turners for extraordinary support.

To beta readers Brooke Carleton, Sonya Volkhardt, and Jesse L. Cairns for masterful commentary and guidance.

To the Victory dealership in Arlington, Texas, and the Smart Car dealership in Dallas.

IT ONLY TOOK one word to destroy me, after millennia of living in peace and security, and the word was No.

I knew as I made my answer that it would not come without consequences. Had I known just how vast those would be, and how far they would ripple, I doubt I would have had the courage.

Humans say that ignorance is bliss, and perhaps that’s true, even for Djinn.

For a moment, it seemed that my act of outright defiance brought with it no reaction. Ashan, the Djinn facing me—one of the oldest of the Old Ones—was a swirl of brilliance without form, a being without the trap of flesh, just as I was.

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