Just Before Ounast (Djinndom Press Book 10)

Sometimes there's a resolution and sometimes there simply isn't. Then, on a few occasions, there's a resolution and something gets in the way.Just hates the second gods. Normally, hated would be the more appropriate word, but in Just's case hates is correct.True, they left the world long ago and equally true, the djinns had thwarted the second gods' goal of imprisoning them only to their abodes.The first part Just had no hand in. As for the second part, not only was he very instrumental in the accomplishing thereof, he was instrumental in the organizing and convincing of the djinns that it could be and needed to be done.All because he hates the second gods.He hates them because they were stupid. Too stupid to see the great torment and injustice that they visited on the innocent djinns simply because they were jealous of the displays of power and the meddling in mortal lives of some of the others.He hates them because they were capricious, imprisoning the Djinnota inside their abodes without a thought or plan as to what they were going to do with them. Like bugs in a set of jars, saved only because of the interference of someone they had clumsily overlooked.He hates them because they meddled with his mind, forcing him to don a new role – that of overseer of the second gods' intent that the Djinnota now become servants to those whom they had themselves meddled with.He hates them because, after all of that, they simply decided to turn and leave the world as if everything they had done had been for nothing other than their vainglory – which it had been.But all of that was simply icing on the cake, as it were. Just hated the second gods before they had imposed their punishments on the djinns.Just's new role dovetailed with the role he had before he and the others had been taken and transformed into the Djinnota. Taken by Ounast, the first second god to interfere with his new family.This new role called for him to search out and prevent those who would twist the intent of the second gods' Laws. His previous role was that of searching out and bringing to justice those who would pervert society's laws.Just had been a cop and he had been a good one – a good one in more than one sense. A good one in his ability as an investigator in ferreting out the bad guys. A good one in his honesty and unswayable devotion to justice. A good one in his tenacity in hunting down those who would pervert that justice until the case was resolved.And that is the primary reason he hates the second gods.He was working a case when he was taken. A particularly grim and dark case in which he very much wanted to bring the perpetrator to justice. Someone he had come to know through his investigations and someone he had just as grimly pursued until resolution was within grasp. Someone who had been mockingly confident that they would never be caught.That resolution was within his grasp when Ounast interfered. After he had become acclimated to what had been done to him, he had set about returning to bring that justice to bear with a vengeance. Then the other second gods had interfered and imprisoned him and all the others for forty-five years.Now circumstances prevented him from even finding out what had happened.Just hates unresolved cases – especially this one.

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