(eng) Marie Andreas - Lost Ancients 04 by The Sapphire Manticore

Author:The Sapphire Manticore [Manticore, The Sapphire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

When I had first moved to Beccia, a traveling troupe of performers came to town. There were storytellers, musicians, and jesters. Garishly made up, these men and women roamed around insulting watchers for laughs.

I hated them and when I drink too much, I see them in my dreams.

I heard them now. My eyes wouldn’t open, and I couldn’t move. Padraig must have spelled me after he knocked me out. The laughter and screams of jesters were just a bonus. I listened to see if I could hear anything else, but nope. Just screeching and hooting.

“I think she’ll come out of it on her own,” a female voice, one that seemed vaguely familiar, cut through the screeching. She sounded right next to me, and yet far away at the same time. Whatever had been in that nectar packed a punch.

That must have made the jesters in my head happy—the laughing got worse.

“I do love those little things, but I think in the future we shall endeavor to keep them from drinking the nectar,” Lorcan said—thus ruining my hope that he would save me.

“There really was no way to know how their physiology would react,” Padraig said. He sounded far away and hopefully he was. Once I figured out how to open my eyes and get my arms to move again, I was going to make sure he knew who he was dealing with. “They’ll come out of it eventually.”

More raucous laughter. I realized the sounds in my head weren’t the jesters of my memory at all, but my own faeries. Drunker than I’ve ever heard them. Usually they lost consciousness before this point.

“Are you sure she’ll be all right?” Lorcan again. Must be in cahoots with Padraig and had something evil in mind for me. Something that required I be okay first. Even in my numb mind that made no sense.

“She’ll be fine but there is something about her that caused the reaction. If I could just touch her.” The woman’s voice came closer. She sounded old and young at the same time. Moreover, unlike Lorcan and Padraig, who now sounded more like themselves, she still sounded both near and far.

I focused all my energy on opening my eyes. If I was going to be the victim of some horrible experiment, I wanted to see who was going after me.

I got them open in time to see a hand right in front of my face and coming at me. I screamed and the hand, followed by the arm and the rest of the woman, went right through me.

“Siabiane! What are you doing?” Lorcan looked flustered when he ran forward.

“I misjudged.” The ghost-like woman pushed herself up through me and went to her feet. “And she startled me. Hello, dear. Good to have you back. I told these two worrywarts you’d be fine, but men never seem to listen, do they? And I will say, I agree with them you had an odd reaction to the nectar. I’ve ordered a full study of what was left in the bottle.

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