"He's trying to agitate me by taunting you and me. Heather has been his.. pet for over six hundred years." Selene said quickly. "He was my.. sponsor to the Court of Summer before I foiled Ephraim's plot to seize the power of both courts. He feels slighted that a 'mere' mortal could be as highly ranked as I and most specifically that I was able to free myself from his power."<br/><br/>Selene watches the faerie as she thinks on Lucas' needs. The fastest way would be for her to take him him through the outer realms but with her former master seeking trouble that was out. She doubted that Greentree would not have forces on the other side waiting for her. That left mortal means, which she realized with a smirk.<br/><br/>"I can give you a few bank drafts and arrange passage by dirigible to New York. I'm sure that I can give you.. say, ten or twenty thousand for travel and living costs along with folk in New York to render aid."