Chapter One
The Conclave
Everyone knew the sins of Miriam Blaylock.
Her crime, and it was an unforgivable one, was to enjoy human beings as friends
and lovers, rather than to simply exploit them. She could kiss them and find it
sweet, have sex with them and afterward sleep like a contented tiger. To her
own kind, this was perversion, like a man with a sheep.
The fact that this prejudice was nonsense did not make what she was doing now
any easier. She pressed herself back against the seat of the pedicab,
instinctively keeping her face hidden, not only from man, but from her own
kind. The samlor moved swiftly down the wet street, spattering through
puddles left by the last storm. From the shadows of the passenger compartment,
she watched a concealing fog rising from the moat that surrounded the ancient
Thai city of Chiang Mai.
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