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• MacKayla (Mac) Lane: "MacKayla O'Connor" - "MacKayla Evelina Lane" - Sidhe-Seer, Null & OOP Detector; Former part-time student who was working as a bartender; 22 years old; Had curly, long blonde hair that's now shoulder-length and black; Has green eyes and a curvaceous body; Loves pink, reading and listening to music on her iPod; Is now working with Barrons to locate the Sinsar Dubh
• Jericho Barrons: "Jericho Z. Barrons" - "J.B." - Is wealthy, strong, brilliant and a walking enigma; Looks 31 years old but is much older; Is extremely attractive with strong, chiseled features; Is six-three and powerfully built with black hair, brown eyes and golden skin; Is of Basque & Pict heritage; Owner of Barrons Books & Baubles; Is something other than human; Knows Sorcery black arts and Duridry; Saves Mac's life always, even from being Pri-ya
• Alina Lane: "Alina O'Connor" - "Alina MacKenna Lane" - Sidhe-Seer & Null; Mac's older sister & best friend; 24 years old; Had long blonde hair and green eyes; Was brutally murdered in Dublin; Reason for which Mac travels to Ireland -- to seek justice for her death
• Rainey Lane: "Rainey Frye" - Mac & Alina's adopted mother; Jack's wife for the past thirty years; Has ash-blonde hair and blue eyes; A southern belle
• Jack Lane: Mac & Alina's adopted father; Rainey's husband for the past thirty years; Has silver-tipped dark brown hair and brown eyes; Is six-two and strong looking; A corporate tax attorney in Georgia; Is smart, charming , well spoken and tough as a tiger when provoked
• Danielle (Dani) O'Malley: "Mega" - " Danielle Megan O'Malley" - Sidhe-Seer with inhuman speed, a heightened sense of hearing, smell and a voracious appetite; A lightly freckled redhead; Has green-gold eyes and a halo of curly auburn hair framing slight features; 13 years old; Her mother was killed by a Fae; Is a messenger for Post Haste, Inc.; Carries the Sword of Light
• Christian MacKeltar: "Scotty" - "Chris" - A fourth-year student who works in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Is six-two or three with wide shoulders and nice muscles; Has long dark hair, a great Scottish accent, and dreamy eyes, an unusual shade of amber, like tiger eyes, framed by thick, black lashes; He comes from a clan that once served as high Druids to the Fae and have been upholding the human part of the Fae/Man Compact for thousands of years, performing rituals and paying tithes; Maggie & Christopher's son; Colleen's twin; Cory & Cara's older brother; Has another set of younger twin siblings; Is currently lost in the Silvers
• Ryodan: "Ry" - "Ry-O" - One of Barrons' Eight; Is IYCGM on Mac's cell phone; Is not Fae but not human; Is very handsome, tall and well built with thickly muscled forearms; His neck is a skein of scars, with a long, wicked-looking one stretching up the left side from shoulder to ear; Looks to be in his early 30's; Owner of Chester's
• V'lane: Prince of the Tuatha Dé Danaan; A "death by sex" Fae as Mac calls him; Is tall, powerful, frighteningly male and terrifyingly beautiful; Has long cinnamon gilded by sunlight hair, skin of shimmering gold and eyes of liquid amber, kissed by molten gold; Member of the Seelie Queen's High Council; Is 142,000 years old in this incarnation; Aoibheal's sometimes consort; Rumored to be the founder of the Wild Hunt
• Aoibheal: (Ah-veel) The beautiful fairy Queen of the Tuatha Dé Danaan; High Queen of the Seelie, Court of the Light; Has silver hair, exotic almond-shaped eyes in a pale face and that are of no color known to man but conjure images of the iridescent hues of a mermaid's wet tail gleaming in the sun; Her skin is always dusted with gold; Is nearly 60,000 years old; The Unseelie King's long-ago consort
• Inspector Jayne: Garda Inspector investigating O'Duffy's murder; Patrick O'Duffy's brother-in-law; Is married with children; Is tall and burly with brown hair neatly combed to a side part and dark eyes; His craggy dace is set in harsh lines; Mac fed him Unseelie so he could see what was happening in Dublin; Now heads the regime who hunt and kill anything Fae
• Rowena: "Ro" - Grand mistress of Sidhe-seers organized as couriers at Post Haste, Inc.; A tiny elegant old woman; Has a fine-boned face, blue eyes and long white hair braided in a regal crown around her head; Has a touch of mental coercion
• Jo: Sidhe-Seer
• Barb: Sidhe-Seer
• Liz: Sidhe-Seer
• Dree'lia: Seelie Tuatha Dé Danaan; A gilt-skinned goddess
• Velvet: Seelie Tuatha Dé Danaan; Is tall and gracefully muscled; Is stunning with velvety-skin dusted with gold
• M'ree: Seelie Tuatha Dé Danaan; A rainbow-colored, delicate Fae that darts like hummingbirds on gossamer wings
• Lor: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is very tall and heavily muscled with dozens of scars on his hands and arms; Looks to be in his early 30's
• Kasteo: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is very tall and heavily muscled; Looks to be in his early 30's; He hasn't said a word in a thousand years
• Fade: One of Barrons' Eight; Is not Fae but not human; Is very tall and heavily muscled with dozens of scars on his hands and arms; Looks to be in his early 30's
• Tellie Sullivan: A woman
• Augusta O'Clare: A crazy woman from Devonshire
• The O'Callaghan: One of the ancient sidhe-seer bloodlines
• Katrina (Kat) McLaughlin: Sidhe-Seer with the gift of emotional telepathy; Dani's friend; A tall, gray-eyed brunette; Is in her mid-20's; Has the potential to lead the sidhe-seers, since she has influence over some of them
• Nana O'Reilly: Sidhe-Seer; Kayleigh's grandmother; 97 years old; Wears her long gray hair in a braid; Her face bears the wrinkles of an old sea captain from nearly a century of living on the shore; She has no teeth and rheumy brown eyes; Knew Mac's mother since she was a little girl; Was Patrona's friend and dearer than a sister
• Isla O'Connor: The youngest Sidhe-Seer to ever attain the position of Haven Mistress; Mac & Alina biological mother; Patrona's daughter; Kayleigh's best friend since childhood; Had blonde hair and green eyes; She used to carry the Spear of Destiny
• Kayleigh O'Reilly: Sidhe-Seer and member of the Haven; Nana's granddaughter; Isla's best friend since childhood; She used to carry the Sword of Light
• Patrona O'Connor: Sidhe-Seer; Mac & Alina biological grandmother; Isla's mother; Was Nana's friend and dearer than a sister
• Clare: Sidhe-Seer
• Mary: Sidhe-Seer
• Josie: Sidhe-Seer; A skinny Goth girl; Has dark eyes with platinum hair, heavy black eyeliner and matching nail polish
• Moreena Bean: "Mad Morry" - Lived in the Abbey a bit over a thousand years ago; Was a washerwoman for the abbess
• Dageus MacKeltar: (Dey-gis) Christian's uncle; A Druid from the sixteenth century, now living in the twenty-first century; Chloe's husband; A father; Drustan's younger twin brother and best friend; Is six-four with bronzed skin, wide shoulders, a hard chest and rippling abs; Has waist-length blue-black hair and exotic golden eyes fringed by thick black lashes; Was born in 1482; Had thirteen evil spirits/dieties inside him, making him dark, at some point in the past.
• Drustan MacKeltar: (druh-stan) Former Highland laird of the MacKeltar clan of Druids from the sixteenth century, now living in the twenty-first century; Gwen's husband; Father of twin girls; Daegus' older twin brother and best friend; Is six-six with bronzed skin and the sculpted physique of a football player; Has long black hair, silver eyes and his jaw is dusted with a blue-black shadow beard; Was born in 1482
• Cian MacKeltar: (Key-on) Christian's uncle; Former laird of the MacKeltar clan of Druids from the ninth century; Jessi's husband; Is six-five, wide-shouldered, powerful and rippling with muscle; Has long rich gleaming mahogany hair shot with shimmering strands of gold and copper, a savagely beautiful face with burnt-whiskey eyes and tawny-velvet skin; Has wicked-looking black-and-crimson tattooed runes covering the left side of his sculpted chest, from the bottom of his rib cage, up over a nipple, across his shoulder, and to the edge of his jaw; Each powerful biceps is also encircled by a band of tattooed crimson-and-black runes; Was trapped in a Silver for over 1,000 years
• Christopher MacKeltar: Current MacKeltar laird & Druid; Maggie's husband; Father to Christian, Colleen, Cory, Cara and another set of twins; Is tall and muscular; Has dark hair and deep gray eyes
• Adam Black: "Amadan Dubh" - "Sin Siriche Du" - "The Blackest Elf" - Former Tuatha Dé Danaan; Last Prince of the D'Jai House; Gabby O'Callaghan's husband; Circenn's father; Is now human and working as a professor; Is six-four with rippling muscles and golden skin; Has waist-length black hair and mesmerizing black eyes with gold sparks; Looks about 30 years old but is actually 6,000 years old; Was once Queen Aoibheal's Jester and consort
• Gabrielle (Gabby) Black: "Gabrielle O'Callaghan" - "Gab" - Adam's pregnant wife; A lawyer; A Sidhe-seer; Is in her late 20's; Has long silvery-blonde hair, a delicate heart-shaped face and huge green-gold uptilted eyes; Is five-four and very curvaceous
• Silvan MacKeltar: Drustan, Daegus, Ian & Robert's father; Nell's husband; A Druid scholar from the sixteenth century; Had an uncanny resemblance to Einstein; Had shoulder-length snowy white hair and brown eyes with tiny golden flecks; Was very tall and narrow of frame with olive-toned skin
• Dancer: Dani's boyfriend
• Sophie: Sidhe-Seer
• Dreamy-Eyed Guy: "DEG" - Christian's former co-worker; A student who worked in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Is now a bartender at Chester's; Is tall, dark and dreamy-eyed with a hard body; Is something other
• Mallucé: (Mal-loosh) "John Johnstone Jr." - Claimed to be a vampire and has many followers; Born to old British money; His parents died in a suspicious car accident, leaving their 24 year old son sole heir to a several-hundred-million-dollar fortune; Was 30 years old; Was muscular and graceful as a cat; Was as pale and smooth as a marble bust with dead citron eyes and long blond hair; He favored steampunk and Victorian Goth; Was dying slowly after Mac stabbed him with the Spear of Destiny; Barrons helped him die more quickly
• Rocky O'Bannion: "Roark O'Bannion" - A very wealthy mobster; Was born Irish Catholic and dirt-poor; A former champion boxer; Suddenly became rich after both the Halloran and O'Kierney, rival mob families were wiped out in one single night; Was a tall, powerfully built man with short, thick black hair and dark, heavy-lidded eyes; Was killed by the Shades after Mac and Barrons stole the Spear of Destiny from him and he came after them
• Lord Master: "Darroc" - "LM" - An evil being hunting for the Sinsar Dubh; Former Elder of the Tuatha Dé Danaan High Council; Is now human as punishment for his crimes against Adam Black and Queen Aoibheal; Was Alina's lover and MacKayla suspects he murdered Alina; Has shimmering copper hair, streaked with gold that falls to his waist; Is tall and very muscular; Looks to be around 30 years old; His skin is tanned gold and smooth; Has strange copper eyes and a long scar running down his left cheek, from cheekbone to the corner of his mouth; He is the leader of the Unseelie army
• Unseelie King: "King of Darkness" - King of the Unseelie of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, Court of Darkness; Aoibheal's long-ago consort; Is many hundreds of thousands of years old
• Cruce: Fae; Unknown if Seelie or Unseelie; Many of his relics are floating around out there; He cursed the Sifting Silvers; Unknown what the curse was.
• Fiona: "Fio" - Used to run Barrons Books & Baubles; Is stunning and voluptuous with a timeless elegance and beauty; Is in her early 50's; Carries a major torch for Barrons and is insanely jealous over him; Was fired by Barrons when she tried to kill Mac; Is working for the Lord Master and eating Unseelie flesh; Derek O'Bannion's mistress
• Derek O'Bannion: Rocky's brother; The Lord Master's right hand; A good looking, nicely built man with dark hair; Is in his late 20's maybe early 30's; He wants his brother's spear back; Is now eating Unseelie flesh; Was taken over and killed by The Book
• K'Vruck: A massive and ancient Royal Hunter; Was the Unseelie King's favorite
• McCabe: A rich Irishman with lots of power; A big-boned, hard bodied, auburn-haired man with ice-blue eyes
• Marilyn: A stunning raven-haired woman; One of Barrons' former lovers
• The Rhymer: Is over 4,000 years old
• Pieter Van de Meer: A long and lean man with impeccable posture; Is in his mid to late 40's; His blond hair frames a Nordic face with deep-set pale-green eyes; Is with the Triton Group
• Pieter Van de Meer Jr.: Pieter's son; Mick's brother; 19 years old
• Michael Van de Meer: "Mick" - Ppieter's son; Pieter Jr.'s brother; 16 years old

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• “Between the idea—And the reality—Between the motion—And the act—Falls the Shadow”

  T. S. Eliot

• “I feel it deep within—It's just beneath the skin—I must confess that I feel like a monster.”

  Skillet, "Monster"

• “Hope strengthens. Fear kills.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “See me when you look at me!”

  Jericho Barrons

• “Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things. And, no, I am not like any other player in this game and I will never be like V'lane, and I get a hard-on a great deal more often than occasionally. Sometimes it's over a spoiled little girl, not a woman at all. And, yes, I trashed the bookstore when I couldn't find you. You'll have to choose a new bedroom, too. And I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “Silence isn't golden, it's deadly.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Dude, if ya can't crack yourself up, ain't never gonna crack anybody else up.”

  Danielle (Dani) O'Malley

• “Between the conception—And the creation—Between the emotion—And the response—Falls the Shadow”

  T. S. Eliot

• “There's truth in your lies—Doubt in your faith—What you build you lay to waste.”

  Linkin Park, "In Pieces"

• “Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don't give a damn, as long as they don't get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.”

  Ryodan

• “If you can't face the truth of your reality, you can't control it.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “Just one time ... When you know who I am. Let me be your man.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “Between the desire—And the spasm—Between the potency—And the existence—Between the essence—And the descent—Falls the Sahdow”

  T. S. Eliot

• “Que sera, sera—Whatever will be will be—The future's not ours to see”

  Doris Day (Livingston and Evans)

• “One thing I've learned is that the harder your life gets, the gentler you have to be with yourself when you finally get some downtime, or you can't be strong when you need to be.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “You choose what you can live with. And what you can't live without.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “This is the way the world ends—This is the way the world ends—This is the way the world ends—Not with a bang but a whimper.”

  T. S. Eliot

• “Don't talk to it, beautiful girl. Never talk to it.”

  Dreamy-Eyed Guy

• “When my faith is getting weak—And I feel like giving in—You breathe into me again . . .”

  Skillet, "Awake and Alive"

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Dublin, Ireland
• Castle Keltar: in Scotland
• Faery
• The Dreaming
• Barrons Books and Baubles: "BB&B" - in Dublin
• Ashford, Georgia
• The Hall Of All Days: The central hub of the Silvers.
• The White Mansion
• Arlington Abbey: Sidhe-seer compound outside of Dublin
• Chester's: Neutral ground. Ryodan's nightclub, 939 Revemal Street. Former gathering place of the rich, bored, and beautiful. Like a cockroach, Chester's would probably survive the fallout. Since Dublin fell, it went underground and serves an entirely new clientele. Or, rather, serves us to an entirely new clientele. Chester's is now the Fae hot spot for preying on humans.
• The Burren: in Ireland
• London, England
• Dublin Castle: New headquarters for the Garda
• Forbidden Libraries
• Temple Bar District: in Dublin
• The Temple Bar
• Dex's: on Main in Dublin
• Trinity College: in Dublin
• New York
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Scotland
• Casa Blanc: McCabe's house outside of Dublin
• The Clarin House: An inn where Mac stayed shortly; Located in Dublin
• Devonshire, England
• Hill of Tara: on the Plain of Meath in Ireland; Long ago called 'Teamir' and before that christened 'Cathair Crofhind' (means 'twas not amiss') by the Tuatha Dé
• MacKayla's Manuscripts and Miscellany: "MM&M"
• Edinburgh Castle

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• Tuatha Dé Danaan High Council: Consists of nine members
• The Guardians: What the Garda have begin calling themselves under Inspector Jayne's leadership as they fight to protect Dublin's remaining citizens.
• An Garda Síochána: "Guardians of the Peace" - Dublin Police
• Barrons' Eight: Eight men that are just like Barrons and answer to him; They are not human but bot Fae; They are Ryodan, Lor, Kasteo, Fade & four others not yet mentioned by name
• Post Haste, Inc.: "PHI" - A Dublin courier service that serves as a cover for the sidhe-seers coalition. Rowena is in charge. After the Book was lost Rowena opened branches of this courier service all over the world, in an effort to track and reclaim it. She has bicycling couriers serving as her eyes and ears in hundreds of major cities. The abbey/sidhe-seers have a very wealthy benefactor who funnels funds through multiple corporations.
• The Haven: High council of sidhe-seers. Once selected by popular vote, now chosen by the Grand Mistress for their loyalty to her and the cause. They were the only ones besides Rowena who knew what was being kept beneath the abbey. Some of them died and/or disappeared when the Book escaped twenty-some years ago.
• The Draghar: The league of thirteen powerful Druids that turned evil and their followers.
• Triton Corporation: "Tritin Group" - Owners of Arlington Abbey
• NDGU: "New Dublin Green-Up" - It's devoted to making the city green again—fertilizing the soil, filling the planters, putting down sod, and eventually bringing the parks and commons back to life.

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Glossary edit see section history

• The Amulet: Unseelie or Dark hallow created by the Unseelie King for his concubine. Fashioned of gold, silver, sapphires and onyx, the gilt "cage" of the amulet houses an enormous clear stone of unknown compostion. A person of epic will can use it to impact and reshape reality. The list of past owners is legendary, including Merlin, Boudica, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. Last purchased by a Welshman for 8 figures, at an illegal auction, it was all too briefly in my hands and is currently in the possession of the Lord Master. It requires some kind of tithe or binding to use it. I had the will: I couldn't figure out the way.
• The Cauldron: Seelie or Light Hallow from which all Seelie eventually drink to divest memory that has become burdensome. According to Barrons immortality has a price: eventual madness. When the Fae feel it approaching, they drink from the cauldron and are "reborn" with no memory of a prior existence. The Fae have a record keeper that documents each Fae's many incarnations, but the exact location of this scribe is know to a select few and the whereabouts of the records to none but him. Is that what's wrong with the Unseelie they don't have a cauldron to drink from?
• The Compact: Agreement negotiated between Queen Aoibheal and the MacKeltar clan (Keltar = hidden barrier or mantle) roughly six thousand years ago to keep the realms of mankind and Fae separate. The Highland clan of Druids has performed certain rituals and tithed every Samhain (pronounced Sow-en, also known as Halloween) to honor the Compact. The walls Queen Aoibheal erected to separate worlds weren't sung into existence with the Song of Making, because Fae lost it so long ago, but were somehow rigged from a portion of the Unseelie's prison walls and reinforced with blood and oaths. Rigging the new walls that way seriously weakened the prison walls. When our walls came down, all the walls came down.
• Cruce: A Fae. Unknown if Seelie or Unseelie. Many of this relics are floating around out there. He cursed the Sifting Silvers . Before they were cursed, the Fae used them freely to travel through dimensions. The curse somehow corrupted the interdimensional channels, and now not even the Fae will enter them. Unknown what the curse was. Unknown what damage it caused or what the risk in the Silvers is. Whatever it is, Barrons apparently doesn't fear it.
• Cuff of Cruce: A gold-and-silver arm cuff set with blood-red stones; an ancient Fae relic that supposedly permits the human wearing it "a shield of sorts against many Unseelie and other...unsavory things" (this according to a death by sex Fae - like you can actually trust one).
• Dark Zone: An area that has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, run-down neighborhood. Once night falls, it's a death trap.
• Death-By-Sex Fae: (e.g., V'lane) A Fae that is so sexually "potent" a human dies from intercourse with it unless the Fae protects the human from the full impact of its deadly eroticism. --- Addendum to original entry: V'lane made himself feel like nothing more than an incredibly sexy man when he touched me. They can mute their lethality if they so choose. --- Addendum to original entry: This caste of Fae springs only from royal lines. They can do three things: protect the human completely and give them the most incredible sex of their life, protect them from dying and turn them Pri-ya, or kill them with sex. --- They can sift space.
• Dolmen: A single chamber megalithic tomb constructed of three or more upright stones supporting a large, flat, horizontal capstone. Dolmens are common in Ireland, especially around the Burren and Connemara. The Lord Master used a dolmen in a ritual of dark magic to open a doorway between realms and bring Unseelie through.
• Druid: In pre-Christian Celtic society, a Druid presided over divine worship, legislative and judicial matters, philosophy, and education of elite youth to their order. Druids were believed to be privy to the secrets of the gods, including issues pertaining to the manipulation of physical matter, space, and even time. The old Irish "Drui" means magician, wizard, diviner. (Irish Myths and Legends) --- Addendum to original entry: I saw both Jericho Barrons and the Lord Master use the Druid power of Voice, a way of speaking with many voices that cannot be disobeyed. Significance? --- Addendum: Christian MacKeltar descends from a long, ancient bloodline of Druids.
• Fae: (fay) See also Tuatha De Danaan. Divided into two courts, the Seelie or Light Court, and the Unseelie or Dark Court. Both courts have different castes of Fae, with the four Royal Houses occupying the highest caste of each. The Seelie Queen and her chosen consort rule the Light Court. The Unseelie King and his current concubine govern the Dark. Iron has some kind of effect on them. Weird that on the periodic table, iron is Fe.
• The Four Stones: Translucent blue-black stones covered with raised runelike lettering. The key to deciphering the ancient language and breaking the code of the Sinsar Dubh is hidden in these four mystical stones. An individual stone can be used to shed light on a small portion of the text, but only of the four are reassembled into one will the true text in its entirety be revealed (Irish Myths and Legends). Other texts say it is the "true nature" of the Sinsar Dubh that will be revealed.
• Freeze-Frame: The way Dani moves. She calls it freeze-framing, as she blips from place to place so fast it gives me motion sickness.
• Glamour: Illusion cast by the Fae to camouflage their true appearance. The more powerful the Fae, the more difficult it is to penetrate its disguise. Average humans see only what the Fae wants them to see and are subtly repelled from bumping into or brushing against it by small perimeter of spatial distortion that is part of the Fae glamour.
• The Gray Man: Monstrously ugly, leprous Unseelie that feeds by stealing beauty from human women. Threat assessment: can kill, but prefers to leave its victim hideously disfigured, and alive to suffer. --- Addendum to original entry: Allegedly the only one of its kind, Barrons and I killed it. --- Addendum to original entry: It could sift space.
• The Gray Woman: The Gray Man's female counterpart. Unlike the Gray Man, she doesn't leave her victims alive. A sifter. No longer consider them singularities.
• Gripper: Dainty, diaphanous Unseelie that is surprisingly beautiful. Grippers look like the modern media's representation of fairies - delicate, shimmering, nude beauties, with a cloud of gossamer hair, and lovely features, only they're nearly the size of a human. They can step inside a humans skin and take them over.
• Hallows: Eight ancient relics of immense power fashioned by the Fae: four light and four dark. The Light or Seelie Hallows are the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark or Unseelie Hallows are the amulet, the box, the mirror, and the book (Sinsar Dubh or Dark Book). (A Definitive Guide to Artifacts, Authentic and Legendary) --- Addendum to original entry: I still don’t know anything about the stone or the box. Do they confer powers that could help me? Where are they? Correction to above definition—the mirror is actually the Silvers. See Sifting Silvers or Silvers. The Unseelie King made all the Dark Hallows. Who made the Light ones? --- Addendum to original entry: See the story of the Unseelie King and his mortal concubine, as V’lane told it to me. (p. 77 this journal.) The kingcreated the Silvers for her to keep her ageless and give her realms to explore. He created the amulet so she could reshape reality. He gave her the box for her loneliness. What does it do? The Sinsar Dubh was an accident.
• IFP: "Interdimensional Fairy Pothole" - These things drive me nuts! When the walls came down on Halloween, parts of Faery splintered into parts of our world, and now, if you're not careful, you can end up walking or driving into one abruptly and without warning. You don't know what's in one until you get inside. They're hard to get back out of. Someone has been―cutting them loose and they've begun drifting on the wind, making them even harder to avoid. There are IFPs inside the network of the Silvers, too. When Cruce cursed it, the collision of realms caused similarly fractured realities. According to Ryodan, IFPs are static microcosms and can be mapped. Some contain dolmens to our world. Most contain other IFPs. One can hop from world to world through them. It's pretty much a mess.
• Iron: Fe on the periodic table. Inspector Jayne discovered that it bothers the Fae. He and his men fashioned bullets from it, lined their helmets with it, and carry it all over their bodies. It can imprison nonsifting Fae.
• IYCGM: Barrons gave me a cell phone with this number programmed in. It stands for "If You Can't Get Me". The mysterious Ryodan answers when I call.
• IYD: Another of Barrons' pre-programmed numbers; stands for "If You're Dying".
• MacHalo: My invention. Very cool. Hot-pink and covered with lights. It's the ultimate fashionable Shade protection.
• The Many-Mouthed Thing: Repulsive Unseelie with myriad leech-like mouths, dozens of eyes, and overdeveloped sex organs. Caste of Unseelie: unknown at this time. Threat assessment: unknown at this time but suspect kills in a manner I’d rather not think about. (Personal experience) --- Addendum to original entry: Is still out there. I want this one dead. --- Addendum to original entry: Dani bagged the bastard! --- Could he sift space? Which ones can and can’t?
• Null: Sidhe-seer with the power to freeze a Fae with the touch of his or her hands. While frozen, a Nulled Fae is completely powerless, but the higher and more powerful the caste of Fae, the shorter the length of time it stays frozen.
• OOP: Acronym for Object of Power, a Fae relic imbued with mystical properties. Some are Hallows, some aren't.
• OOP Detector: A sidhe-seer with the special ability to sense OOPs. Alina was one, too, which is why the Lord Master used her. --- Addendum to original entry: Very rare. Certain bloodlines were bred for this trait. Rowena's sidhe-seers say they've all died out.
• Orb of D'Jai: No clue, but Barrons has it. He says it's an OOP. I couldn't sense it when I held it, but I couldn't sense anything at that particular moment. Where did he get it and where did he put it? Is it in his mysterious vault? What does it do? How does he get into his vault, anyway? Where is the access to the three floors beneath his garage? Is there a tunnel that connects buildings? Must search. --- Addendum to original entry: Barrons gave it to me so I could give it to the sidhe-seers, to use in a ritual to reinforce the walls on Samhain.
• Pri-Ya: A human addicted to Fae sex.
• Rhino-Boys: Ugly, gray-skinned Fae who resemble rhinoceroses with bumpy, protruding foreheads, barrellike bodies, stumpy arms and legs, lipless gashes of mouths, and jutting underbites. They are lower mid-level caste Unseelie thugs dispatched primarily as watchdogs for high-ranking Fae. --- Addendum to original entry: They taste horrible. --- Addendum to original entry: I don’t believe they can sift space. I saw them locked in cells in Mallucé's grotto and chained up. It didn't occur to me at the time how odd that was, then later I thought maybe Mallucé was somehow containing them with spells. But after Jayne made his comment about imprisoning Fae, I realized that not all Fae can sift and I'm starting to wonder if only the very powerful ones can. This could be an important tactical edge. Must explore.
• Royal Hunters: A mid-level caste of Unseelie. Militantly sentient, they resemble the classic depiction of the devil, with cloven hooves, horns, long satyrlike faces, leathery wings, fiery orange eyes, and tails. Seven to ten feet tall, they are capable of extraordinary speed on both hoof and wing. Primary function: sidhe-seer exterminators. Threat assessment: kills. --- Addendum to original entry: Encountered one. Barrons doesn't know everything. It was considerably larger than he'd led me to expect, with a thirty to forty-foot wingspan and a degree of telepathic abilities. They are mercenary to the core and serve a master only so long as it benefits them. I’m not sure I believe they’re mid-level, and in fact, I’m not sure they’re entirely Fae. They fear my spear and I suspect are unwilling to die for any cause, which gives me a tactical edge.
• Seelie: The "light" or "fairer" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan governed by the Seelie Queen, Aoibheal. --- Addendum: The Seelie cannot touch the Unseelie Hallows. The Unseelie cannot touch Seelie Hallows. --- Addendum: According to V'lane the true queen of the Fae is long dead, killed by the Unseelie King, and with her died the Song of Making. Aoibheal is a lesser royal who is one of many that has tried to lead The People since.
• See You In Faery!: Catch phrase for sycophantic human sex kittens who will trade anything and everything for the high of eating Unseelie flesh. They believe if they eat enough, it will make them immortal and they'll get to go to Faery, too. Said in the most annoyingly chirpy tone possible!!!
• Shades: One of the lowest castes of Unseelie. Sentient, but barely. They hunger—they feed. They cannot bear direct light and hunt only at night. They steal life in the manner the Gray Man steals beauty, draining their victims with vampiric swiftness, leaving behind a pile of clothing and a husk of dehydrated human matter. Threat assessment: kills. --- Addendum to original entry: I think they’re changing, evolving, learning. --- Addendum: I know it is! I swear it’s stalking me! --- Addendum: They've learned to work together and shape themselves into barriers.
• Shamrock: This slightly misshapen three-leaf clover is the ancient symbol of the sidhe-seers, who are charged with the mission to See, Serve, and Protect mankind from the Fae.
• Sidhe-Seer: (SHE-seer) A person Fae magic doesn't work on, capable of seeing past the illusions or "glamour" cast by the Fae to the true nature that lies beneath. Some can also see Tabh'rs, hidden portals between realms. Others can sense Seelie and Unseelie objects of power. Each sidhe-seer is different, with varying degrees of resistance to the Fae. Some are limited, some are advanced with multiple "special powers." --- Addendum to original entry: Some, like Dani, are superfast. There's a place inside my head that isn't…like the rest of me. Do we all have it? What is it? How did we get this way? Where do the bits of inexplicable knowledge that feel like memories come from? Is there such a thing as a genetic collective unconsciousness?
• Sifting: Fae method of locomotion, occurs at speed of thought. (Seen this!) --- Addendum to original entry: Somehow V’lane sifted me without my awareness that he was even there. I don’t know if he was able to approach me "cloaked" somehow, then touched me at the last minute and I just didn’t realize it because it happened so fast, or if perhaps instead of moving me, he moved the realms around me. Can he do that? How powerful is V'lane? Could another Fae sift me without my having any advance warning? Unacceptably dangerous! Require more information.
• Sifting Silvers or Silvers: Unseelie or Dark Hallow, an elaborate maze of mirrors created by the Unseelie King once used as the primary method of Fae travel between realms, until Cruce cast the forbidden curse into the silvered corridors. Now no Fae dares enter the Silvers. --- Addendum to original entry: The Lord Master had many of these in his house in the Dark Zone and was using them to move in and out of Faery. If you destroy a Silver does it destroy what was in it? Does it leave an open entry/exit into a Fae realm like a wound in the fabric of our world? What exactly was the curse and who was Cruce? --- Addendum to original entry: Barrons has one and walks around in it!
• Sinsar Dubh: (She-suh-DOO) Unseelie or Dark Hallow belonging to the Tuatha Dé Danaan. Written in a language known only to the most ancient of their kind, it is said to hold the deadliest of all magic within its encrypted pages. Brought to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé during the invasions written of in the pseudo history Leabhar Gabhåla, it was stolen along with the other Dark Hallows, and rumored to have found its way into the world of Man. Allegedly authored over a million years ago by the Dark King of the Unseelie. (A Definitive Guide to Artifacts, Authentic and Legendary) --- Addendum to original note: I’ve seen it now. Words cannot contain a description of it. It is a book but it lives. It is aware. --- Addendum: The Beast. Enough said. --- Addendum: How the feck am I supposed to contain the thing? Is this a joke?
• Spear of Luisne: Seelie or Light Hallow (a.k.a. Spear of Luin, Spear of Longinus, Spear of Destiny, Flaming Spear): The spear used to pierce Jesus Christ's side at his crucifixion. Not of human origin; it is a Tuatha Dé Danaan Light Hallow, and one of few items capable of killing a Fae—regardless of rank or power. --- Addendum to original note: It kills anything Fae and if something is only part Fae, it kills part of it, horribly.
• Sword of Lugh: Seelie or Light Hallow, also known as the Sword of Light, a Seelie Hallow capable of killing Fae, both Seelie and Unseelie. Currently, Rowena has it, and dispatches it to her sidhe-seers at PHI as she deems fit. Dani usually gets it. --- Addendum: Saw it. It’s beautiful!
• Tabh'rs: (TAH-vr) Fae doorways or portals between realms, often hidden in everyday human objects. (i.e. cactus in the dessert)
• "Taking Back the Night": Song Dani and I made up, now the sidhe-seer international anthem.
• Tuatha Dé Danaan: or Tuatha Dé (TUA day dhanna or Tua DAY) (See Fae above) A highly advanced race that came to Earth from another world, comprising the Seelie and Unseelie.
• Unseelie: The "dark" or "fouler" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. According to Tuatha Dé Danaan legend, the Unseelie have been confined for hundreds of thousands of years in an inescapable prison. The Unseelie cannot touch the Seelie Hallows.
• Unseelie Princes: Death, Pestilence, Famine, and War.
• Voice: A Druid art or skill that compels the person it's being used on to precisely obey the letter of whatever command is issued. Both the Lord Master and Barrons have used this on me. It's terrifying. It shuts down your will, and makes you a slave. You stare helplessly out from your own eyes and watch your body doing things your mind is screaming at you not to do. I'm trying to learn it. At least to be able to resist it, because otherwise I'll never be able to get close enough to the Lord Master to kill him, and get vengeance for Alina.
• Ward: Just learning about these. They're all over outside the Forbidden Libraries. I can pass through most of them for some reason. I don't know why. It's either one of my sidhe-seer talents or something I acquired through all my struggles. They're tricky things.
• Z-Lo: Barrons' version of the MacHalo. Black. Lighter, brighter, and more efficient, but I'm not about to tell him that.
• AWC: "After Wall Crash"
• Ban-sidhe: Ireland's harbinger of death, that shrieking mythic creature driven by fury
• Song of Making: It is life. It is that from which the Fae come. It is the ultimate power to create, to destroy, depending on how it is used. It sings into existence . . . change.
• Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.
• Shade-Busters: Dani's cherry bomb invention to get rid of Shades
• fear dorcha: An unseelie; It seeks the Faces of Humanity
• The Dani Daily: Dani's news flyer

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Preceded by Dreamfever, and followed by Iced.

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1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3613 .O527 S53 2011
• Dewey: 813.6

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There is no children's book equivalent to this. This book is a paranormal romance, with monsters, murders, blood, rape, and sex. Not for children, or comparable to anything that is.

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• Darkfever (IMDb): Movie

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