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1jjmcgaffey
This is, I think, very famous - one of the standards of urban fantasy. Not War for the Oaks, I'm pretty sure, mostly because I don't think I've read that yet - but in that class.
The two protagonists are a retarded woman (she calls herself simple, I forget what term the narrator/author uses) who can see the fae (again, not sure what term is used in the book) that live all around her. It starts with her playing the Rumplestiltskin game with a little man who lives in the tree outside her apartment. When she comes back from a shopping trip, he's been attacked and is bleeding to death in the tree. She brings him up to her apartment and tries to care for him. At this point the second protagonist gets involved - a young man who is, I think, making a living as a busker, playing his guitar on the street. He's seen the woman passing by, but I'm not sure he's ever spoken to her before; she recognizes him and asks for his help. The little man dies (and admits he lied about his name, she'd already guessed it), and somehow that precipitates them into a war...someone attacking the local fae? Or an evil trying to come through, and only the fae and their allies can fight it? Something like that.
Near the end, another scene - the woman is leaving work, and following her ritual for doing so. She says something, her supervisor responds, she replies, her supervisor says something else and then she can turn and go. The enemy kills her supervisor - gives her a heart attack - just before her final comment, and the simple woman is stuck, she can't turn and go because the supervisor hasn't said the right words. She's supposed to be somewhere to support the final battle, and she's stuck.
A few other bits - an attack by a lawn; something about an old college and a certain spot on the grounds that's very strong (I forget whether good or bad, or just powerful). There's a ghost at the college, too. A police car nearly hits (or does hit) a...centaur? Something visibly not-human and not-animal.
Help?
The two protagonists are a retarded woman (she calls herself simple, I forget what term the narrator/author uses) who can see the fae (again, not sure what term is used in the book) that live all around her. It starts with her playing the Rumplestiltskin game with a little man who lives in the tree outside her apartment. When she comes back from a shopping trip, he's been attacked and is bleeding to death in the tree. She brings him up to her apartment and tries to care for him. At this point the second protagonist gets involved - a young man who is, I think, making a living as a busker, playing his guitar on the street. He's seen the woman passing by, but I'm not sure he's ever spoken to her before; she recognizes him and asks for his help. The little man dies (and admits he lied about his name, she'd already guessed it), and somehow that precipitates them into a war...someone attacking the local fae? Or an evil trying to come through, and only the fae and their allies can fight it? Something like that.
Near the end, another scene - the woman is leaving work, and following her ritual for doing so. She says something, her supervisor responds, she replies, her supervisor says something else and then she can turn and go. The enemy kills her supervisor - gives her a heart attack - just before her final comment, and the simple woman is stuck, she can't turn and go because the supervisor hasn't said the right words. She's supposed to be somewhere to support the final battle, and she's stuck.
A few other bits - an attack by a lawn; something about an old college and a certain spot on the grounds that's very strong (I forget whether good or bad, or just powerful). There's a ghost at the college, too. A police car nearly hits (or does hit) a...centaur? Something visibly not-human and not-animal.
Help?
2kmaziarz
Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light by Tanya Huff, almost certainly.
3jjmcgaffey
Yep, that's it. I said it was one of the famous ones. And it was a unicorn they hit...
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