I'd been called worse. 'What do you mean I've always been a Leech? I'm human.'
'A Grinean,' the stranger corrected. 'Every species has them, and it seems your genetic makeup has been altered so much that you've become one.'
'Brockwing Vale's water did this?'
'Yes.'
Gwenvere hissed. 'You did say Gil almost drowned you and that this was all part of her plan. If Faerie kind had a Guide working with them, it could change everything.'
'How so?'
'With a faction fighting at their side, they would become members of the Order, and they are not Ingaran.'
'But neither am I.'
Gwenvere leapt at me but stopped herself inches short of striking. 'Believe me, I know. We could accept you being a member of a faction, but as a Guide and a Grinean, your abilities will become greater than all of ours combined.'
