[Rosalynd]
With her black hair piled on her head in long loose curls, wearing emeralds at her ears and a dark green dress, Alexa would look stunning if her face was not red and speckled with white dots of rage.
“What are you telling my son?” she seethes. “Stay away from him, don’t talk to him, it is not your place to explain our mating rituals to him.”
“You’re right,” I agree as I rise. She takes a long look at my mark, not so different from the scar on her own neck, and she hisses like a stray cat. “It isn’t.”
“It’s your job,” Axe
[Axel] "No, you are not," I growl. Rosalynd places a hand on my arm, but no amount of soothing is going to keep me from fighting tooth and nail for my boy. "You do not get to come in here and..." "Actually," Alexa produces a piece of paper from her bag. "According to this court order, I am entitled to visitation rights. I'd rather we work something out between us," her eyes grow cold. "But I'm fine getting the courts involved." "Michael," I stare him down. At least he has enough sense to look ashamed of himself. "Are you going to go through with this? Why are you trying to steal my son?" "Axel I..." Reaching across the table I grab his collar. "Isn't it enough that you stole my wife out from under me, you need to take my kid too? Make your own damn son if you want one so much but you can't have mine!" "We can't!" Alexa shouts, her face red, her hands shaking. "We've tried. I...I can't get pregnant." "What do you mean," I look back and forth between the two of them. "You
[Evander] The darkness is complete. Blinking, the quality of light does not change as there simply is no light. My Fae eyes were designed to work in the faint moonlight under trees and there has never been a time when the light was so complete that I couldn't see at least an outline or a silhouette. But tonight, there is not even the smallest flickering of a candle. The sounds around me are calm, the slow drip of water, the sound of soft footsteps on earthen floors. There is a gentle murmuring just outside my range of hearing, muffled as if heard through several walls and doors, so far away as to not be discernible. Lying prone on my back, the feeling of fine silk under my fingertips is cool and smooth. As I move my legs, it creates the crisp rustling sound of fine silk fabric. The pillow underneath my head is soft with bits of solidity, not the even fluff of modern synthetic fibers, but the old familiar feel of goose down. Feather pillows give comfort like no other. Weigh me do
[Evander] "Get me my coat!" I leap from the bed. "I need to get back to the surface." "Brother," Burdock tries to get me to sit, but I hear him coming and grab his wrist, twisting. "That wasn't a request." [Gideon] “Is there no way we can get around this traffic?” Jasper whines, looking around at the carnage left in Slone's wake. “This sucks. I don’t want to stay here all afternoon. How are we going to help anyone from here?”
[Slone] The world looks so small. Has it always been so small? The master had warned me that from above things would be different, that when I finally found my true power I'd be higher than the others, looking down at them from a terrible height as I was raised aloft with the force of my power. He was serious. I am above everyone. At least fifty feet above everyone. When I was a child I'd occasionally have dreams that I was flying. Didn't we all? But actually hovering above everyone, held aloft by nothing more than magic and imagination is a completely different experience than anything I could have dreamed of. It is one thing to have a birds-eye view, bit to feel the lack of anything solid between me and the world beyond is terrifying, but also amazing. I had no idea that magic could feel like this. Nothing I did with the coven prepared me for the thrill of having so much energy coursing through my body. My body is cocooned within a nebulous cloud of energy that stings me w
[Rosalynd] “Let go, baby.” Axel tries to ease my fingers from Alexa’s throat. “No,” an unfamiliar growl resonates from deep within my throat. My claws dig in a bit deeper, making Alexa whimper. I smile, “She is trying to take our pup. She is a threat.” “This is not you, Rosie,” Axel tries to send soothing thoughts through our bond but I also feel his fear and anxiety and feed off of that instead, letting it fuel my anger. “If I kill her,” I grunt slowly around clenched teeth. “The problem goes away.” “She’s not worth it, lov
[Rosalynd] “That was an Earthquake,” Axel dismisses it. “I don’t even think it was that bad. Maybe a 3.6?” “Sounds like it knocked down one of the giants,” Patrick shrugs as if things like this happen every day out here in the woods. “It’s always a bit loud when things like that happen.” “Giants!,” I squeak. “Giants are real?!!” My eyes must appear ridiculous with shock because the two men look over at me and begin to laugh. “Oh sweetie,” Patrick reaches over and pats me on the shoulder. “I forgot that you are new to these p
[Gideon] Evander, Antigone, and Rainy are standing in front of us ringed in shadow, a layer of steam rising from their clothing as their bodies adjust to the difference in temperature between the subterranean Fae Realm and the surface world. The three of them look ragged and tired as if they were running to catch up with us the entire way from Arcata to here. And maybe they had. "Evander," I walk forward. "Whatever are you doing out of bed?" I am glad to see my friend but also worried. We only sent him to Faerie a few hours ago completely unconscious and so damaged that Antigone could do nothing to help him. Now he
[Rosalynd] Slone is standing above us, or at least I think it is her. She looks nothing like herself. Where once she had gently waving brown hair, the straight white bob is unnaturally white, almost silver. Her skin glows like it has been freshly polished, perfectly tanned, and massaged with sweet almond oil. As the mist shrouding her body reforms into a chic black pantsuit, which she is wearing while topless, the front of the jacket reveals cleavage down to the belly button. On her feet are a pair of heels that would be impossible to run with, but something about how the lightning crackles at her fingertips tells me that she isn't going to do much running. We are.