Dreamfever (2009) (edit title/settings)

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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Danielle (Dani) O'Malley: "Mega" - Sidhe-Seer with inhuman speed; 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.
• Katrina (Kat) McLaughlin: Sidhe-Seer; 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
• Christian MacKeltar: "Scotty" - "Chris" - A fourth-year student who works in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Is six-two or three with widw 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 missing
• Cian MacKeltar: 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.
• Dageus MacKeltar: 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
• Drustan MacKeltar: 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
• Christopher MacKeltar: Current MacKeltar laird; 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 dark hair and mesmerizing black eyes with gold sparks; Looks about 30 years old but is actually 6,000 years old
• Ryodan: "Ry" - Barrons' associate; Is IYCGM on Mac's cell phone; 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
• Lor: Barrons' associate; Is tall and heavily muscled; Looks to be in his early 30's
• Nana O'Reilly: Sidhe-Seer; Kayleigh's mother; 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
• Kayleigh O'Reilly: Sidhe-Seer; Nana's daughter
• Isla O'Connor: The youngest Sidhe-Seer to ever attain the position of Haven Mistress; Patrona's daughter; Kayleigh's friend since childhood; A blonde
• Patrona O'Connor: Sidhe-Seer; Isla's mother; Woman that Mac & Alina might be related to
• Patrick O'Duffy: "Patty" - Dublin Garda Inspector assigned to Alina's murder investigation; An overweight, balding and red-faced British man; Was married with three children; Inspector Jayne's brother-in-law; Was murdered
• 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
• Rowena: "Ro" - Grand mistress of Sidhe-seers organized as couriers at Post Haste, Inc.; A tiny elegant old woman; Has blue eyes and wears her thick silvery-white hair pulled back in a long braid from a fine-boned face
• Jo: Sidhe-Seer
• Sorcha: Sidhe-Seer
• Clare: Sidhe-Seer
• Cassie: Sidhe-Seer
• Liz: Sidhe-Seer
• Barb: Sidhe-Seer
• Moira: Sidhe-Seer; Worked for Post Haste, Inc.; Mac killed her accidentally when Moira tried to steal her spear
• Sean McLaughlin: Kat's brother; Deceased
• Jamie McLaughlin: Kat's brother; Deceased
• The Gallowglass: "Gallóglaigh" - One of the ancient sidhe-seer bloodlines
• The MacRorys: One of the ancient sidhe-seer bloodlines
• The MacSweenys: One of the ancient sidhe-seer bloodlines
• The Brennans: One of the six most potent sidhe-seers bloodlines
• The O'Reillys: One of the six most potent sidhe-seers bloodlines
• The Kennedys: One of the six most potent sidhe-seers bloodlines
• The O'Connors: One of the six most potent sidhe-seers bloodlines
• The MacLoughlins: One of the six most potent sidhe-seers bloodlines
• The O'Malleys: One of the six most potent sidhe-seers bloodlines
• Dreamy-Eyed Guy: Christian's co-worker; A student who works in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Is tall, dark and dreamy-eyed with a hard body
• Tiffany: A girl Mac went to high school with
• Tommy Ralston: One of Mac's high school boyfriends
• The Brooks: A family in Ashford; They host an annual 'Ghosts & Ghouls Treasure Hunt'
• The Jennings: A family in Ashford
• Officer Deaton: Police officer in Ashford
• 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
• Death: Unseelie Prince
• Pestilence: Unseelie Prince
• Famine: Unseelie Prince
• 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
• 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
• 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: 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
• 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.

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• “When I was in high school, I used to hate that Sylvia Plath poem where she talked about knowing the bottom, that she knew it with her great taproot and that it was what everybody else feared, but she didn't, because she'd been there. I still hate it. But I get it now.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Instantly, I'm cool and perfect and detached from everything. I'm the Shit. It's the most massive high in the world!”

  Danielle (Dani) O'Malley

• “What a way to go: death-by-shoe-Shade.”

  Danielle (Dani) O'Malley

• “I want it to always be like this,"..."Try holding on that thought."..."I do not need to try. I will never feel differently."..."Ah, Mac, one day you will wonder if it's possible to hate me more.”

  Mac & Barrons

• “I do not know that word, 'cooperate'."..."Obviously,”

  Mac & Barrons

• “Don't leave me."..."I'm not, Mac. ...You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”

  Mac & Barrons

• “You have to be vigilant with precious things.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “We want to feel something: Alive. Electrically, intensely, blazingly alive. Good. Bad. Pleasure. Pain. Bring it on—all of it. For people who live small, I guess enough of that can be found in sex. But for those of us who live large, the most alive we ever feel is when we’re punching air with a fist, uncurling our middle finger with a cool smile, and flipping Death the big old bird.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Don’t confuse intensity of emotion with quality of emotion, baby,”

  Jack Lane

• “Who wants to go back?" I said coolly. "I want to go forward. And if you're always looking over your shoulder, worrying about the next step you're taking, you can't. Hesitation kills.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “We're taking back the night!—Let there be light.—We're not afraid anymore.—You took what was mine—And now it's time—For you and me to settle the score—We're taking back the night!”

  Mac & Dani's song

• “Don't lose yourself in anger, Mac. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you—only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing.”

  Ryodan

• “There's good everywhere. You just have to look for it.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being to proud to do it.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Life's an ocean, full of waves. All are dangerous. All can drown you. Under the right circumstances, even the gentlest swell can turn tidal. Hopping waves is for the weekend warrior. Choose one, ride it out. It increases your odds of survival.”

  Ryodan

• “Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most enexpected places.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “They should be afraid of you", he'd said. "You have only begun to discover what you are.”

  V'lane

• “But now we see through a glass darkly and, the truth, before it is revealed to all, face to face, we see in fragments (alas, how illegible) in the error of the world, so we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil.”

  Umberto Eco

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• “Don’t lose yourself in anger, Mac. It’s gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you—only your body doesn’t have the good grace to quit breathing.”

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• The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm.

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• Daddy told me once—when I’d said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was—that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they’d fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they’d eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other’s curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.

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• the heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal’s

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Dublin, Ireland
• Faery
• Arlington Abbey: Sidhe-seer compound outside of Dublin
• The Brickyard: Bar where Mac worked in Ashford
• Trinity College: in Dublin
• Barrons Books and Baubles: "BB&B" - in Dublin
• Scotland
• Ban Drochaid: "The White Bridge"
• Ashford, Georgia
• Chester's: 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.
• Temple Bar District: in Dublin
• The White Mansion
• Savannah, Georgia
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Manhattan: "NYC"
• London, England
• The Hall Of All Days: The central hub of the Silvers.
• The Dreaming
• County Clare, Ireland
• Forbidden Libraries

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• An Garda Síochána: "Guardians of the Peace" - Dublin Police
• Post Haste, Inc.: "PHI" - A Dublin courier service that serves as a cover for the sidhe-seer coalition. It appears Rowena is in charge. --- Addendum: After the Book was lost, Rowena opened branches of this courier service all over the world, in an effort to track and reclaim it. It was very clever, really. 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. --- Addendum to original entry: 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.
• Barrons' Eight: Add a description of this organization.
• Sidhe-Seers, Inc.: "SSI" - Their emblem of the misshapen shamrock. Their oath is to 'See, Serve, and Protect'.
• The Guardians: What the Garda have begin calling themselves under Inspector Jayne's leadership as they fight to protect Dublin's remaining citizens. They eat Unseelie and kick serious Fae ass.
• The Draghar: The league of thirteen powerful Druids that turned evil and their followers.
• Tuatha Dé Danaan High Council: Consists of nine members

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• 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 mmemory 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 known to a seliect 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 Dé 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.
• 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) --- Addendum: 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".
• Libraries, The Twenty-One: Sidhe-Seer libraries
• 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: Me. 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.
• "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. Inescapable, my ass.
• 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.
• Z-Lo: Barrons' version of the MacHalo. Black. Lighter, brighter, and more efficient, but I'm not about to tell him that.
• 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.
• Shian: A fairy mound. It is said that if you circle the mound seven times and spill your blood upon the peak, the Queen of the Fairies may appear and grant you a wish.

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Preceded by Faefever, and followed by Shadowfever.

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1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 D74 2009
• Dewey: 813.6

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Some sexual situations and profanity

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Fairies & Elves
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Dark Fantasy

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• Karen Marie Moning: Official Site
• Karen Marie Moning: Fever Series Page
• Sidhe-Seers, Inc.: For additional information about the Fever series and the world of the Fae.

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• Darkfever (IMDb): Movie

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