Meng Yi, the one who seemed to be more outgoing, gave a step forward and bowed his head "Thank you, Elaine... enchanted to meet you! we have heard so much about you, it is wonderful to finally see you in flesh, we owe you so much Star Princess..."

Caliope blushed as she noticed he was referring to her, and his eyes darted into her soul. She felt some strange shivers and forced herself to smile in return, bowing her head the best way she could. "Please, it is me the one who is pleased to meet you Generals..."

"This is my brother, excuse him if he is a bit shy at first, just give him time..."

The younger one sighed to his brother's words and bowed his head "Nice to meet you all..."

Caliope felt instantly comfortable with him "Welcome, I hope you had a good fly."

"Indeed we had, and now I can see we were missing much fun here..."

"I wouldn't call it fun, General... there has been some stressing situations in more personal levels than we expected." Elaine replied, working hard on keeping herself together while she addressed them.

Maxwell broke the introduction "Your chambers are ready, with everything you requested, as usual... you all can feel at home there."

"Thank you Maxwell." Tian's gentle tone was soothing for Caliope, she smiled at him. She also noticed how Tian was softer with Maxwell, he even smiled softly at him. Amra made her focus on the couch and then both sat together as the rest took the seat in the different chairs around. "Pronab, please explain what they mean by hunting." Amra was bringing back their attention to the immediate situation.

"It is quite simple, they are referring to hunt down your ex-boyfriend, Caly..."

"Hunt him down?! He is a person! A human being! What are you going to do with him?"

Falshore frowned "Isn't it obvious? We will make sure he will never bother you again."

Pronab stepped in and became defensive, he didn't like Falshore, even tho his idea was something he enjoyed, his manners towards Caliope were unacceptable "Is not obvious for her, and she is right to want to know more about this, she doesn't have a sick mind like yours."

"You liked my idea..."

"I do, but she is not like that."

Maxwell sighed "throughout the centuries, we have kept low profile and remained as only fantasy in people's minds... we can't jeopardize having our existence revealed to the world, they are neither prepared nor ready for this kind of exposure..."

Caliope almost sobbed "...but he is after me, not you..."

Pronab looked at her and tried to smile "You are now part of our world, you are also half immortal... your life is now with us as well... and he is obsessed with you."

Meng Yi laid against the wall as he spoke "We are familiar with obsessive people, every few centuries, if not less, there are humans who become famous for their obsession."

Elaine nodded "...it is sad, our own kind sometimes loses the path and fall into some obsession..."

Vanessa was curious, and even though she kept quiet most of the time, her curiosity was stronger this time, she sensed something was wrong "What does that have to do with hunting a human down?"

Pronab replied to her, his voice soft and gentle "When a human has proven to be a danger to us, and is someone ill minded, it is our duty to stop him, and this is one of those cases... the hunting is just a fun way to do this..."

"If he was a regular guy, we wouldn't have much to worry, we would stop him, and that would be the end of this. But he has money, power in the human's world... he has resources and contacts... he has protection and means to make it difficult to us to reach to him without showing ourselves to more humans." There was hate in Falshore's voice, but also a truth that Maxwell couldn't deny "To hunt him is to find out a way to reach to him and make sure he will never represent a threat to us anymore."

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