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He didn't get angry, to his credit. She'd been curious to see how he would react and his answer told her a great deal. It also explained why he had joined Sapphique. The only men they seemed to attract were those with few aspirations themselves. She did not think that this was a shortcoming.

Loyalty to a place, or your past, is still loyalty. Rosalyn replied, with a small smile. But I never said it was a bad thing, not having it. She'd implied as much, of course, but she and Erzulie had built something here worth having. And, in doing so, thrown out a great deal of prior history that was not worth keeping anyway. If he saw bluer waters with them then she wouldn't question it.