"Tell me," Ric suggested, softly and from his position in the ground. "Read the story." They'd talked about it some, to begin with, but somehow he thought getting Elijah to keep talking and saying it aloud was a good idea. Or a horrible one, but he was pretty inclined to go with his first instinct.

Which was, admittedly, why Elijah had ended up daggered to begin with, but.