What’s the best way to keep gnomes out of your house?
True: Moving to a different house every time they find their way in. It’s impossible to keep a gnome-free house.
Virtue: People who say they have a gnome-free house are lying.
True: Or delusional.
Virtue: Or both. All houses have gnomes. All of them.
True: Every single one.
Virtue: Little pests.
Was it hard to keep so much of Selkie’s history a secret for all those years?
True: Not really.
Virtue: Really, we always considered it irrelevant. She is who she is, what does the rest of it matter?
True: We are all always who we are. It’s as simple as that.
Virtue: And as complicated.
What’s the greatest moment in ogre history?
True: We try not to get too involved in history. Even our own.
Virtue: We like to just be left alone to live our lives. That’s our greatest moment in ogre history: surviving.
True: But we *did* help out what that Armada that one time.
Virtue: Oh, yes. The one from Spain?
True: We sent a storm to stop it.
Virtue: That’s right. But aside from that, we try not to get involved.
True: Yes.
You’ve lived on Beacon Hill for hundreds of years. What was your favorite era? Did you mix with any famous historical figures?
True: I think I liked the earliest days the best.
Virtue: When it all seemed like such a new adventure, yes, that was fun.
True: Again, we try to stay out of human events.
Virtue: But we did meet that Isabella Stewart Gardner. You couldn’t avoid meeting *her.*
Were you aware that Selkie and Ben were friends?
Virtue: Friends? No.
True: He was supposed to be protecting her. He wasn’t supposed to be *befriending* her.
Virtue: Whoever heard of making friends with a faerie, anyway?
True: No offense to Selkie.
Virtue: Selkie’s not really a faerie, you know that.
What do you like best about Boston?
Virtue: How so much of it stays the same.
True: How it never forgets.
