24 ChristmasesChapter 24
“Tell me the outcomes of tonight’s follies,” Calnes says, leaning back on the pillows on the bed. The slim figure, looking more like a bird, turns to regard him. Armera is not a creature of this world. As creator of the Brokers, she is from another entirely different. But like a bird, she has an array of colors of reds, browns and whites, very beautiful as well as mysterious. She smiles at the man, her one and only ex-Broker. “Yes, I forget,” she says casually, though she hasn’t forgotten a...