“It was a gift.”  She said, in reference to the car as she settled into the front seat.  “One second…”  Her hands began to move, dancing in the air as she conjured up a cloaking spell.  It would not hide them from the outside world, the humans would still be able to see the car but anyone with fae blood in their veins would be oblivious to it.  It would simply just not seem to be there at all.  It would give them the time they needed to truly escape their pursuer.  Once the spell was cast, her right hand through the car into gear and her left turned the wheel.  Within seconds, they were out of the parking lot and weaving through the roads to reach a nearby state highway that would lead them out of the city.  It was not until they were on that road that she allowed her focus to be drawn back to the man next to her.<br/><br/>He had not contested her assertion that things were different for him, so she figured there was a good chance he knew that much was true.<br/><br/>“You can call me Roxie, though I’ll probably respond to Rainbow Brite if that is truly what you’d prefer.”  She said with a shrug of her shoulders, her eyes remaining on the road and checking the rearview every few moments to make sure there was nothing more than mundane cars on the road behind them.<br/><br/>“And I think we’ve lost that thing for now, but the ward I put around the car is only going to hold for a few hours.  It may be able to pick up your scent again, if it’s wise enough to go back to where we just were then…”  She let her words trail off, he was likely smart enough to follow her logic to its conclusion.  If that thing pursued them, they would have to continue their escape.  Roxie wished she had planned ahead for this sort of thing, but she had not expected a creature like that to be so close to him.<br/><br/>“If you think you don’t need protecting after seeing that thing, you’re either very deeply in denial or very foolish.  I’m going to wager the former, not the latter.”  Her voice was calm as she spoke.  If she appeared worried or panicked, he would probably follow her lead and that was the last thing they needed right now.<br/><br/>“This is going to sound like something out of a fairy tale, but you are the son of a great king and queen.  Your father was betrayed by the man closest to him, a man he considered to be like his brother.  Family in everything but blood.  Your mother gave birth to you in secret and used an ancient practice to switch you with a human child shortly after that...Now, years later, the man who betrayed your father has learned of this deception and he seeks to kill you and end your father’s line.”<br/><br/>They took a sudden, sharp turn on to a dirt road.  Roxie continued down it until they came near the river and a small, elegant looking home near the shore of it.  The bayou was dense with trees and magical energies all its own.  It was like a canopy of nature, one that might help keep them safe from being found.<br/><br/>“That thing? That was an assassin.  Me?  I was sent by your mother.  Your<i>real </i>mother.”  He might laugh in her face and think she was crazy, but if worse came to worst, she could probably sedate him and get him out of here.  “I’m sure you’re going to have a million questions, but let’s get in the house and then you can ask me whatever you want…”