Having taught myself to read by the age of three, stories have always been important to me...I've never been able to resist a new story or new story teller. While working in New Mexico, I not only was given my nickname but also discovered a new hobby: Faerie Tales. Don't laugh...I'm serious. Each culture has its own wealth of myths, legends, and fables but if you look closely, they often closely match stories from sister cultures. So I started collecting, analyzing, and generally enjoying them. After graduating college, I took a temporary security job working the graveyard shift. It gave me plenty of time to follow up on researching my hobby.

My research took an unexpected twist when I was on a discussion board trying to defend a friend (who was working on a comparison of the Eros/Psyche story with the Beauty and the Beast faerie tale) against a particularly annoying board troll. Another user logged on, watched for a few minutes, and started in on the troll with such dry sarcastic wit that I thought my computer would crash. It was absolutely wonderful to watch. You could almost see the troll squirming as he typed a hasty escape. 'Dragon' stayed online a few more minutes and we struck up a nice chat and swapped a few of our favorite stories. He even offered my friend a few tips on her dissertation. We chatted off and on for a few more months when he suggested contacting someone in New Orleans. Since I have family there on my father's side, I set up a visit.

What I hadn't planned on was that this little visit was going to get me in over my head. I met with Dr. Alexander and his half-brother, who seemed oddly peeved that my friend's dissertation equated Eros to the beast, but while we were debating (ok...arguing...),

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and am now the Night/Weekend manager at a local university library. Or at least, that's my 'cover' job. That makes me the resident Central Texas researcher/archivist. Mainly I hunt info for the Houston, San Antonio and Austin Dark Hunters, but there seems to be a lot of growth in the Temple/Killeen area recently. Maybe the Austin DH's will need some extra help. Too bad I don't know any of them well enough to ask. I'll need to pick Kell's brain next time his band tours up this way and see if he thinks we should keep an eye on it. Just because I'm an archivist doesn't mean I want the Oracles to get involved. Would it kill them to answer my research questions with something other than a riddle? A simple yes or no? Up? Down? Sideways?

I have been temporarily relocated to New Orleans for my current assignment. If I'm not at workat the library or helping out in The Heavenly Drop coffee shop, then I'm probably at home trying to keep a couple of Weres and a handfull of Squires in line. Not as easy as it sounds.

As you can see from that sketch, one of them is quite an artist...and aparently my introduction to him via a life guard pole made quite an impression....

I'm currently assigned to special projects with Shame. It's a good match since she's much more of a 'people person' than I am. It's almost uncanny how total strangers just open up to her.

I am still able to keep Polarized up to date with my assignment, even when he is called away for other duties. Good thing he's a squire too, or I'd have a hard time explaining all of this.

Claire, one of the other Squires, and her mate Devin have recently had two lovely twins, Asane and Aidan...guess I better go make sure the food supplies are well stocked.