Cry Wolf

• The Moor¹¹⁰
• Hussan¹²²
• 'Sil¹⁶⁵

Cry Wolf

• His face was refined and elegant, his skin, like Charles’s, was teak and sunlight. His nose and black eyes said Middle East⁵⁵
• Looked 23 or 24⁵⁵
• Almost a foot shorter than Charles, just an inch or two taller than Anna¹⁰²
• Dark skin and darker eyes and hair-black in artificial light¹⁰²

Fair Game

• His features and skin showed traces of Arabia by way of North Africa¹⁵

Unappreciated Gifts

• Hair cut short²⁷⁶

Werewolf

Cry Wolf

• Hint of wildness, of some sickness⁵⁵
• Not a wolf to mess with¹¹⁰
• If there is a wolf in this world older than the Marrok, it might be Asil¹¹⁰
• Born just before Charles Martel, Charlemagne's grandfather, defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours¹¹⁰
• Born eighth century A.D.; 1300 years old¹¹⁰
• Crystalline wolf eyes²¹¹
• His fur was so dark a brown as to be mistaken for black in the growing shadows²⁸²

Fair Game

• One kill, or maybe as many as three or four, and his control would be gone. Asil was too old, too fragile, to be sent out hunting werewolves. He would enjoy it entirely too much. He could feel the wild spirit of his wolf leap at the chance of such a hunt, the chance of a real fight and the blood of a strong opponent between his fangs²²

Burn Bright

• Been too long an Alpha before coming here, and his ruling style differed a great deal from Bran's¹¹⁴

Frost Burned

• Could kill vampires without losing control¹⁶⁵
• Eyes the color of citrines¹⁶⁷
• Asil's beast enjoyed playing with his victims¹⁷⁰

Roses in Winter

• Asil was very old, and his wolf was given to fits of rage, both of them nearing the end of their very long life²⁷⁹

Asil and the Not-Date

• Knew some tricks for dealing with witchcraft. He used pack magic to shield himself²²⁹

Aspen Creek Pack AKA Marrok Pack

Asil Moreno House

Previous Mate - Sarai(Deceased)

Son - Ibn Hussan

Cry Wolf

• Pure Spanish accent⁵⁵
• Has a hothouse, and seldom cuts the blooms from his plants¹⁰³
• Asil is not really his name though it's what most people call him¹¹⁰
• There were a lot of stories about the Moor. He was almost a folk hero-or villain-among the wolves¹¹⁰
• It's been over two hundred years since anyone has called him by the name Hussan¹²²
• His roses weren’t as glorious as the ones he’d had in Spain, but they were a vast improvement over the commercially grown flowers he’d started with. His Spanish roses had been the result of centuries of careful breeding. It hadn’t bothered him to leave them at the time, but now he regretted their loss fiercely¹⁶⁴
• He’d been exchanging cuttings and rootstock with other rose aficionados for several decades before he’d been forced to leave, so his work had not all been in vain. Somewhere in the world there were probably descendants of his roses. Maybe if Bran made him live a few more years, he’d go out looking for them¹⁶⁴
• A man other people turn their heads to watch²⁶⁵

Dead Heat

• The only fruit tree he had was a waist-high dwarf clementine that Asil said was a tribute to his Spanish heritage and the oranges he used to grow on some farm he’d owned at one time or another²⁰¹

Burn Bright

• Has a very expensive, brand-new Mercedes SUV¹¹⁵

Frost Burned

• Had a Spanish accent, but not the same Spanish as most of the people Mercy knew who spoke Spanish as a first language in the Tri-Cities¹¹⁸

Roses in Winter

• Had been poor-any number of times-but not in the last five hundred years²⁸⁴

Unappreciated Gifts

• His tastes are only for women²⁷³
• Has a Subaru and a Porsche Cayenne²⁷⁵

Asil and the Not-Date

• Descended from African Berbers and people from the Arabian Peninsula. He is thus a Spanish Moor²²⁰
• Gifted himself a sword with modern steel better than his old Spanish steel blade²²⁷
• After his mate's death, he made hunting down black witches the focus of his life for several centuries²²⁹

Languages

Frost Burned

• English is not his first, nor even his fifth, language¹²⁷
• Speaks Spanish¹⁷⁸

Unappreciated Gifts

• Fluent in Lao²⁷¹

Cry Wolf

• Most of Asil's histrionics were a performance. When he was truly disturbed, he had overly precise moments and started fussing about nonsense and things that didn't matter¹²⁵
• Too much of a gentleman to leave Anna in trouble¹³²
• His standards of beauty had broadened over the years¹⁶⁵
• Self-absorbed and arrogant²⁰⁹
• Too old to believe in happy endings²⁵³
• Had once been a truly devout man²⁶⁵

Fair Game

• Didn't have a modest bone in his body¹⁷
• Found that life still had the power to surprise him, so he was willing to stick around for a little while longer¹⁹

Dead Heat

• Vain, beautiful and intelligent¹⁸

Burn Bright

• Flattery was a good way to get cooperation from Asil⁹⁹
• Asil's anger was a cold thing¹¹⁴
• Would never willingly betray a trust given to him¹⁶⁷

Frost Burned

• Enjoyed being the center of attention¹¹⁹

Roses in Winter

• Didn't like scaring children²⁷⁷
• Does not hurt women without grave cause and never children²⁷⁷
• Had enough grief and mourning, even secondhand, to last a thousand lifetimes²⁸⁴
• Done with responsibility³⁰⁵

Unappreciated Gifts

• Muslim and does not care about Christmas²⁶⁹

Asil and the Not-Date

• Owned that vanity was one of his sins²⁰¹
• Felt society's failure to care for their most vulnerable to be a shame upon this country²¹¹

Cry Wolf

• Artistic talent was plebeian at best¹²⁰
• Can always track his pack mates²⁰⁹
• Would feed you your anger back with a healthy dose of humiliation²⁰⁹

Fair Game

• Always had a talent for imitation²¹

Frost Burned

• Faster than anyone Mercy had ever seen¹⁶⁷
• Was a famous swordsman with centuries of practice¹⁷⁶

Storm Cursed

• Can change just the part of his body he needs¹¹⁷

Roses in Winter

• A good driver²⁸⁴
• Could carry a tune²⁸⁵
• Knew the woods, he'd spent nearly fifteen years here, and his feet knew every rock and hole within miles of his house²⁹⁶
• Could play guitar³¹¹
• Originally composed a song on a guitarra morisca³¹¹

Unappreciated Gifts

• Good at waiting²⁷⁰
• His judgment of people was usually quick- and always accurate²⁷³

Cry Wolf

• Wakes up disoriented and sometimes not where he went to sleep after dreaming of his dead mate⁶⁸

Fair Game

• Spars using Chinese qiang²⁶⁸

Unappreciated Gifts

• Tango was his favorite dance²⁷⁸
• Very good dancer²⁷⁸

Asil and the Not-Date

• Ran most nights to exorcise the demons of memory and to calm the raging wolf who shared his skin²⁰¹

Cry Wolf

• His favorite scent was Sarai and vanilla, but Sarai and cinnamon was almost as good¹²⁰
• Posed a lot¹²⁴

Fair Game

• Disliked being called the Moor- saying it was a vampire kind of thing to do, take a part of who a person was and reduce him to it with a capital letter or two¹⁵
• Believes romance is good for the soul²⁰
• Will do anything he can to never be Alpha again²²

Burn Bright

• Skirted the truth of what he knew with the wussy words “may” and “seems”¹³⁹
• Drove as if he were a human, with human reflexes¹⁵⁴
• Asil didn’t love his cars. He appreciated them and took meticulous care of them, but they were just vehicles to get him from one place to the next. He enjoyed them more if they did it with style and power, but they weren’t anything he was attached to¹⁵⁵
• Likes Johnny Cash¹⁵⁹
• Didn't respect anyone's boundaries but his own²¹⁰

Frost Burned

• Did not enjoy being a passenger in a car¹⁶³

Roses in Winter

• Most of his greenhouse was on drip lines, but he preferred to do some of the work himself—and he’d learned that repairing a drip line was nearly as time-consuming as watering it all himself anyway and considerably less satisfactory. The temptation in this age was to automate too much and ruin his own fun²⁷⁶
• Thinks of the day he met his mate when he smells roses²⁸⁰
• Doesn't want to be a werewolf²⁹⁴
• Doesn't pay attention to politics anymore³⁰²
• Played a song to make his roses grow³¹¹

Unappreciated Gifts

• Thinks that the music the Christmas season subjects him to is mostly bad²⁶⁹
• Clothes horse²⁷⁴
• Doesn't like bullies. Especially doesn't like bullies who put their victims in a position where they could be hurt²⁷⁴
• Preferred merlots and big reds and didn't like sweet wines²⁷⁴
• Renaissance was his favorite era for fashion, when men's wear vied with women's for sheer spectacle²⁷⁶
• Loves to dress in costume²⁷⁸

Asil and the Not-Date

• Has seen both wyrms and dragons²²⁴
• Had killed wyrms before, though only a handful²²⁶

Asil and Sarai

Cry Wolf

• Feels guilty because he was traveling when she was tortured to death⁶⁸
• Had no photographs of her, nor had any of the paintings he'd attempted ever done her justice. Only in his dreams did he see her¹²⁰
• She was so beautiful to Asil, even though he knew that others might not find her so¹²⁰
• Sarai had often thumped him soundly on the head for looking at other women, though she’d known he’d never stray. Now that she was gone, he seldom even looked. Flirting didn’t make him feel disloyal to his dead mate, but he’d found he missed that thump too badly¹⁶⁵
• He’d found her himself, days after she’d died. He’d taken her poor body and washed it clean. Had burned it with salt and holy water. Knowing who had killed her, he wanted there to be no way to raise her from the dead¹⁷¹
• Kept Sarai's favorite shirt all these years and occasionally sleeps with it on his pillow¹⁷¹
• She who taught him how to grow plants indoors¹⁷⁴
• Asil and his wife's mate bond had brought with it an unusual gift, empathy²¹¹
• Some mated pairs could talk to each other mind to mind, but with Sarai it had always been emotion. Over the years, practice had allowed it to develop into something not so much different from telepathy²⁵⁵
• For Sarai, Asil lived and died²⁵⁷

Roses in Winter

• Asil thinks of the day he met Sarai when he smells roses²⁸⁰

Asil and Mariposa

Cry Wolf

• Asil dreams of her almost every night⁵⁶
• He was afraid of what Mariposa had become. Afraid of the witch who hunted him as she'd hunted his Sarai¹⁷¹
• Ran for over 200years from Mariposa the witch who had killed his mate¹⁷²
• His dreams always got stronger when the witch got too close¹⁷³
• Mariposa had somehow stolen the bond between Asil and his mate¹⁷³
• The witch started to hunt him; he never had figured out exactly what she wanted. He, who had run from nothing, ran from a child not yet into her second decade of life. Because if she took Sarai, he could not guarantee that she could not take him. He was too old, too powerful to be a tool in the hands of a witch, dead or alive¹⁷⁴
• Sarai and Asil raised Mariposa²¹²

Asil and the Cornicks

Cry Wolf

• Asil about Bran: “A gift you have, someone who knows what needs to be done and will do it. You have a place to come home to, a safe place, because of him. I had to leave my Alpha to come here because he’d have let me rot in madness out of love. A weak love that betrays. If you knew what I feel, what Carter Wallace felt, you’d know what a blessing you have in Bran Cornick, who will kill those who need killing.”⁵⁶
• Asil thought to see Charles, the original lone wolf, caught with a foot in the trap of amor will amuse him for a while longer⁵⁷
• Asil came to Bran a month ago complaining about his dreams and asking Bran to put him out of his misery⁶⁸
• Asil came to Aspen Creek fifteen years ago to ask Bran to kill him. He settled for the promise of death instead-as soon as Bran determines he really is crazy¹¹⁰
• Asil has no problem with Bran being his Alpha, but he has a problem with Charles being more dominant¹¹⁰
• Digs at Charles and Charles ignores him; then he digs harder¹¹¹
• Wanted Anna to know that if she decided not to have Charles, she could pick Asil instead¹¹²
• Disliked Charles almost as much as Leah did¹²³
• Sage, he knew, was beginning to suspect that his madness was feigned. Bran probably thought so, too, since he hadn’t just killed him, though Asil had requested it of him repeatedly—fifteen years of “not yet.”¹⁶⁹
• Supplied the bouquet and decorated the chapel with his roses for Charles and Anna's wedding²⁹³

Hunting Ground

• Had been working with Anna to help her come to some understanding of what she could do as an Omega⁶⁹
• Taught Anna how to kill vampires¹⁰³

Fair Game

• Didn't always get along with Charles¹⁷
• Asil had taught Anna all that she knew about being Omega, which he seemed to believe gave him some sort of in loco parentis status¹⁸
• Bran allowed Asil's subtle defiance¹⁹
• Leah’d flirted with him—his Alpha’s mate, who should know better. He’d allowed her the first one, but the second time he’d taught her not to play her games with him¹⁹

Burn Bright

• Asil liked Leah considerably less than he liked Charles-and he only tolerated Charles for Anna's sake¹⁰³
• Vowed his loyalty to the Marrok and Bran¹⁰⁵
• Asil had lost his mate, but Allah, who knew men’s hearts and how to heal them, had given Asil a second Omega to guard. He loved her—though he was not in love with her. He loved her as a man must love the well that brings water to his people in the desert. For her sake, he would give his life²⁰⁸

Roses in Winter

• Asil was pretty sure that the Marrok warned all the youngsters away from him²⁷⁶
• Bran saw through him=which was one of the reasons Asil liked him²⁹²
• If Bran did not make an exception for Kara, Asil and Bran would have that battle that Asil came here for³⁰²

Asil and the Wolves

Cry Wolf

• Slapping down Sage was as rewarding as beating a puppy; it accomplished nothing except to make him feel abusive¹⁶⁵
• Had known and liked Leo, Anna's previous Alpha in Chicago¹⁶⁶

Fair Game

• Asil volunteered to go out and scare the bejeebers out of young idiots who break the rules the first time⁴⁹

Burn Bright

• Sage was seldom found too far from Asil if he was present⁹³
• Sage and Asil had something going on-something they'd been pretty private about¹⁴⁰
• Juste has a problem with Asil for not killing the Beast of Gévaudan¹⁵¹
• Bran used Asil to deal with Wellesley most of the time¹⁵⁵
• Knew Sherwood Post before the witches got to him and took his leg and memory¹⁷³
• Kara was a favorite of Asil's¹⁷¹
• Asil and Devon had once been very close²⁵⁰
• Asil had liked and respected Devon, and goodness knew Asil didn't respect very many people on the planet. Bran. The mysterious amnesiac Sherwood Post. Anna couldn't think of anyone else offhand²⁹⁵
• Asil had disappeared for a few days after finding Sage. When he returned, he had retreated to his roses and only come out when Kara went and got him³⁰⁵

Roses in Winter

• Devon doesn't have to worry about hurting Asil, so he comes to Asil's greenhouse²⁸¹
• Kara's safety had become important to him²⁸²
• Devon misses his flowers and comes to Asil's greenhouse to remember²⁸²
• Sang Kara a Moorish tune in African that his father had learned from his grandmother²⁸⁵
• Needed to be in this pack so that when his wolf broke, there would be someone strong enough to hunt him down and kill him before his body count grew too high²⁹⁰
• Asil would learn the names of potential werewolves if they made the transition, not before²⁹¹
• He would not give in to his beast just yet. He wanted to see what Kara would grow into²⁹⁷

Unappreciated Gifts

• Had always liked Tag²⁸²

Asil and Hussan

Hunting Ground

• Annoyed with Hussan for refusing to kill Asil when he asked. He would not answer phone calls or letters⁸³

Unappreciated Gifts

• Emailed his son and told him about the game²⁷⁶

With the Fae

Frost Burned

• Got away cleanly from Zee when he used to hunt werewolves²¹¹
• Outsmarted Zee for three weeks in high winter in the Alps²¹³

With the Vampires

Frost Burned

• Aware of vampire eye tricks³³¹

Unappreciated Gifts

• Had never been familiar with any vampire²⁸⁶