Firefly Glen My knight in shining Uber.

No, she decided aloud, when Maxim stepped into her line of sight.

Of course, it wasn’t her long lost mate. Towhee’s heart jumped into her throat and lodged there as she registered who it really was: Alaric. He looked so much like Maxim, his arrival here just now struck her like a cruel joke.

She couldn’t help but remember the last time they’d met, right here in the glen. He’d helped her with Batman, who’d simply disappeared one day, just like the love of her life. The thought deepened the frown already pulling at her face.

-“No,”- she repeated.