Kara waited patiently for Hallbjorn to answer his cell, and when he did, her hearing seemed stronger because she could hear the peculiar Nix speaking. She mouthed the word 'Bertil' to him, and one of her eyebrows rose. When Nix seemed to forget who she had called, Kara crossed her arms and frowned down at the cell.<br/><br/>It took her a moment to recognize the tune that Nix hummed. Her called Hallbjorn Lamebjorn had her scowling, and before she had a chance to even reply to the strange woman, Nix was talking about Bertil again, whoever that was. Her ears ached after the high pitched squeaking of what sounded like a bat. Then the line went dead.<br/><br/>“She's an odd duck.” Kara mused, then sat down beside Hallbjorn. “Nix was humming the theme song to I Dream of Jeannie.” When she saw no recognize on his face, she took the cell phone from him and explained as she did a Google search. “It was a television series years ago about a genie married to a regular man.”<br/><br/>Finding the image she was looking for, she held up the picture displayed of Barbara Eden dressed scantily in her genie clothes. “The show portrayed her as a genie that lived in a bottle and wreaked havoc with her powers.” Kara worried her lower lip with one of her small fangs. “I always thought genies were beings that were captured to grant wishes. From one of my classes on mythology, they were supposed to be trickers. The person who caught them  would get three wishes, but the genie, the Djinn, would always find a loophole.”<br/><br/>Kara looked up at Hallbjorn as a tinge of wonder and disbelief flashed over her expression. “Is that what I am? Or is Nix just off her rocker?”