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Nothing I could do to you will be as terrible as what you'll do to yourself

I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

- I'm still your father.
- You're my father's murderer.
- I can be both.

"I wondered if that wasn't you shooting bolts at me."
I make a face at him "And what made you decide it wasn't?"
He grins up at me "They missed."

"You're going to be okay," I say.

"You know," he says, hanging on to me. "That ought to be reassuring. But when mortals say it, it doesn't mean the same thing as when the Folk do, does it? For you, it's an appeal. A kind of hopeful magic. You say I will be well because you fear I won't be."

"I don't know, but don't worry about it yet," Vivi says, getting up. "Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter." She goes to the freezer and removes a tub of mint chocolate chip. She brings that and two spoons back to the sofa. "For now, accept this delight, unworthy though it is for the Queen of Faerie in exile."