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Red Phoenix

Red Phoenix

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Autoren: Kylie Chan
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some research on me. If you knew about the nature of turtles then you would not be surprised.’
    ‘John Chen Wu, you never cease to surprise me, every day of my life.’
    ‘Good.’ He ran his hands over my back and his face became intense.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
    A fter we’d changed into the swimwear the Tiger provided for us, John led me out of the room and into the long outdoor hallway. He took me down carved wooden stairs to the ground floor, and along the breezeway through the gardens. The demon gardeners looked up and smiled as we went past.
    ‘How much time did you spend here before?’ I said. ‘Were you here often?’
    ‘I honestly miss it.’ He stopped and looked around. ‘When I wasn’t on the Mountain, or in the Northern Heavens, I spent quite a lot of time here. The Tiger and I shared some good times.’ ‘He misses you.’
    ‘Yes, he does.’ He took my hand. ‘Come on, let’s go for a swim.’
    We continued through the gardens. ‘I have not seen a single one of these notorious women that you both carry on about,’ I said. ‘I’m beginning to think it was just pure bravado on his part, and a careful scheme by you to keep me out of his paws.’
    ‘You have found me out. I just didn’t want him to have a chance with you.’ He smiled sideways at me. ‘Not even I am permitted into the women’s quarters. He’s probablyhunted them away from the pool as well. He’s very protective of his females.’ He nodded. ‘Here we are.’
    It was more like a country club than a swimming pool. Palm trees and red rocks surrounded the freeform lagoon; a couple of demon servants waited attentively next to the deck chairs that flanked the pool bar.
    ‘Geez, this is the life.’ I looked around. ‘This is like a five-star resort.’
    ‘He’s a tiger. He likes his swimming.’
    ‘With his women, as well. Shades of the Playboy mansion.’
    John laughed softly. ‘You are very perceptive sometimes.’
    ‘You can’t swim though, John, it’s chlorinated.’
    ‘It’s not. It’s kept pure by some sort of Celestial thing. I can go in.’
    ‘Some sort of Celestial thing? Is that a scientific term?’
    He stopped, his face completely blank. Then he spun, grabbed me and tossed me over his shoulder. He ran to the pool and threw me in, towel and all, then jumped in after me.
    I lay back on the deck chair with the crossword on my knees. I sipped the rich, ice-cold fruit drink, then returned the glass to the table and the demon waiter refilled it for me. John was at the bottom of the pool; he’d been there for some time. The occasional bubble rising from his dark shape was the only sign he was alive.
    ‘Damn if he hasn’t gone and fallen asleep at the bottom of the pool again.’ The Tiger strolled over to me and sat down next to the deck chair. ‘He does that every single goddamn time.’
    ‘Is that what he’s doing? I was wondering. How come he can stay so long under the water? He’s in human form, doesn’t he need to breathe?’
    ‘He’s in his element. Even drained and in human form, it’s his element. Even when I’m drained I can still do things with metal.’
    ‘That’s right, your element is metal. What can you do?’
    ‘Just about anything.’ He looked around. The spoon lifted out of my drink and floated to him. He sat up, held it in front of his face and closed his eyes.
    The spoon changed to gold.
    ‘Take it,’ he said.
    I plucked the spoon out of the air. ‘Really gold?’
    ‘Yep. Not worth anything here on the Plane, but on Earth it’s quite handy. I have to be careful not to do it too much, don’t want to upset the world economy. Let it go, I have it.’
    The spoon lifted from my fingers and I released it. It floated in front of his whiskers again. ‘Note, my Lady Emma, nothing up my sleeve.’ The spoon changed to copper. He concentrated, and the spoon folded up into a ball slightly smaller than a golf ball. He changed the copper ball to gold, then to silver, then it changed shape again until it was a little silver tiger.
    ‘Stop.’ I took the tiger out of the air. ‘This is really sweet.’
    ‘You like it? It’s platinum.’ He concentrated, and the little tiger floated off my hand. A tiny loop grew out of its back. Another spoon floated off the table next to me, went shiny, and turned into a matching chain. The chain threaded itself through the loop, and the platinum tiger drifted back down to settle on my hand.
    ‘It’s delightful,’ I said. ‘I’ll give it

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