Among the Glimmering Flowers by S.L. Dove Cooper

Author:S.L. Dove Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dovelet Books
Published: 2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

There’s no telling why the wisps choose the people they torment. Probably they liked the princess’ hair as much as I did and thought she’d make a pretty plaything. Something like that. So all I had to do was distract them. Somehow. Preferably you want to be getting them something more enjoyable far away from where you’re at, but that’s just common sense. At the time, I’d only come up with the idea to distract them.

By rights, I should’ve stayed out of it. Wasn’t any concern of mine whether the princess was ill or not. I just wanted to keep my head down and work with horses. I’d been lucky that Lord Good-Nature’d hired me at all. Wasn’t like I’d come up to the castle asking for a job. We’d both been wandering a horse fair. Was a horse’d spooked badly. She was a beauty, all right, but not even her owner dared go near her. He’d promised me a good meal if I caught the beast, so. I decided I’d try. Even if I’d seen her kick the previous boy to try bloody. She was just a scared beast and he’d been stupid enough to get behind her.

Anyway, Lord Good-Nature liked what he saw and offered me a job at his stables. I’d heard a lot of good things about him, wandering through the fair, so I jumped at the chance and the promise of regular meals and a roof over my head. ‘Twas him that calmed the mare in the end, but he took me with him to the castle and I’d been a stable boy there ever since, learning the work as best I could. I like to think I did him proud, but truth is I’d rather do right by the beasts than get any man’s praise.

Lord Good-Nature didn’t know I’d gone out in the night, escorting his niece to places she shouldn’t be in. And wearing clothing she shouldn’t have been. Anyway, I didn’t owe her anything anymore. I could’ve ignored it and no one’d blame me for not wanting to get involved further in the mess that was the princess’ illness. God knows I told myself all of this a dozen times over. Wasn’t anything to me. Wasn’t my job. Wasn’t my fault. Not my responsibility. The princess had over a dozen men and women smarter than me looking after her. Someone was bound to discover it was wisps.

Best I got myself away, honest. Take my wages and run before anyone discovered what I’d done. That would’ve been the sensible thing to do.

I’ve been called a lot of thing in my life. Sensible hasn’t often been one of them. It’d been my fault. And I’d liked the princess. Lord Good-Nature’d been the only exception I’d ever known until then. All the other nobles I’d encountered, caring for their horses, just look at you like you’re a speck of dirt. Linna… Aye, well. I just couldn’t let the wisps play with her like they were. I knew it wasn’t doing her any direct harm, as such, but even so.

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