Across an Endless Sea (The Fifth Nicnevin Book 2) by Marie Mistry

Author:Marie Mistry [Mistry, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781915066206
Published: 2022-12-08T18:30:00+00:00

Twenty-Five

Caed

My face is still sore, but that doesn’t stop someone from slapping my cheeks to wake me. I try to wave them off, then realise that my arms are still bound. With a sigh, I reach for my magic, intending to scare off the slapper, only to find…

Nothing.

My swords aren’t there. I can feel the power that I use to summon them, but it’s sealed away. Out of reach.

True fear, the likes of which I’ve rarely felt before, ricochets down my spine. Being powerless in Fellgotha is a death sentence.

Another slap to the face breaks me out of my paralysis. My eyes snap open, and I come face to face with Prae.

“What the fuck happened to you?” she demands, slapping me again—even though I’m clearly awake. “Your Nicnevin has gone on a rampage on a giant snake and you decided to get a sleeve done to commemorate it before hanging out in the dungeon for a night?”

“Sleeve?” I grimace. “My fucking powers are gone, Prae.”

Which means it wasn’t just a dream.

My cousin’s good eye sharpens, and she reaches forwards, tapping my pectoral. “I guess that explains this part…”

I look down, practically tucking my chin into my collarbone to see what she’s pointing at.

There, over my heart, is a single rose in black ink, almost identical to the one on my hand. Only this time it’s surrounded by a ring of six swords, each one wrapped in chains that shackle it to the rose at the centre.

The flower doesn’t exactly look… healthy either. Unlike the one on my hand, its petals are withered and tattered, and I grimace as I wonder what the fuck that means. Danu didn’t mention anything about this… did she?

The tattoo doesn’t end there, either. The bruises on my arm have faded to a sickly teal, but they can’t disguise the twisting, geometric knotwork that spears outward from the chained rose, along my arm and down to my wrist. The intricate piece tumbles over every inch of skin between my shoulder to my hand.

The knots form four empty frames, spaced evenly across my outer arm, before ending in a thick inked shackle that echoes the iron one still secured around my wrist.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the four gaps are for the fae I’m supposed to win over. Is Danu going to reward me with more ink I never asked for?

“I’m getting you out of here,” Prae murmurs.

There’s no way Elatha has ordered my release so soon, and I blink at her. “What?”

“Oh, use your brain for once, Caed!” she snaps, and I blink as I finally comprehend the panic in her eyes. “If Elatha finds out you’ve been covered in fairy magic by the Goddess he despises, do you think he’s going to let that slide? You were on thin fucking ice to begin with. This will tip him over the edge. You want to find out if your connection to Rose will keep you alive through all the horrors he can

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