A Fair Fight (Fair Folk Chronicles Book 3) by Perkins Katherine & Cook Jeffrey

Author:Perkins, Katherine & Cook, Jeffrey [Perkins, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23: Shakespeare in the Park

"We couldn't do this at home, in my bed?" Megan asked the pixie, as they moved through the park. Lani and Justin paced some way behind them, intending to stand guard where they wouldn't interrupt. The Count circled above, likewise keeping watch. While there were some quiet places in the park, there was no absolute guarantee of privacy.

"Of course not. We really needed to find someplace really attuned to Mab, to increase the odds she'll notice."

"All of this work to get to the right realm of dreams, or level, or whatever it is, and she might not even notice?"

"The Queen is a busy lady. She has nightmares, prophecies, and cold sores to deliver. I mean, really, if you went to the house of, uhm, someone really busy, like a nurse, or a long-haul driver, or Katy Perry's lawyers, would you just expect them to be there?"

"Okay, no, I guess not. But honestly, does it matter where we start, then, if we're trying to get to a specific place? I'd probably sleep a lot easier in my bed."

"Yes, but we don't want you to sleep easier. We want you to sleep just difficult enough. And meanwhile, increase the chances that Mab or one of her messengers will notice

"And how I sleep changes that?"

"How, where, when... there's other questions, too, but what you sleep is a thing best left to journalists and philosophers.”

Megan sighed and found a large tree, sitting down and settling against it. "Okay, like this?"

"I don't know. Are you getting sleepy?"

"Not really."

"Then my career as a hypnotist is shot,” Ashling said. “Oh well, cue the music!"

Megan turned on the tablet she borrowed from Lani and put the drive with the audio file in. She set the speakers as loud as she could, glad that the others were keeping watch for hikers. She started to sing with the music, adding the bardic magic elements and letting the harmony help cover for the missing note. It took a bit longer than she recalled the last lullaby taking, but eventually, she started to drift.

A squirrel raced over Megan's shoulder, down her jacket, and then across her legs, before scrambling across the grass, causing her to start awake. Megan shivered with the steady breeze, and glanced up into the darkness at the chittering from the tree above. She could only see flickers of movement, flashes of brown, red, and gray, moving through the thick branches, calling and answering.

Greater awareness started to dawn. The squirrels were a lot louder and more numerous. The branches of the tree were much thicker than those of the tree Megan had fallen asleep against. Looking up, the rest of the tree was orders of magnitude bigger, seeming to extend for a mile or more into the sky.

What she first thought was another squirrel turned out to be Ashling climbing up Megan's sleeve to her shoulder. “Now, we should probably be somewhere within the gates of horn. Stay away from the gates of ivory, and definitely stay away from the gates to your junior high school.

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