Apotheosis (The Neamhain Prophecy Book 2) by Brett J Baker

Author:Brett J Baker
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Royal Crown Press
Published: 2021-11-11T22:00:00+00:00

XIV

Mr. Buckleberry

The four courts of Tír na nÓg had always been a confused gaggle when they gaggled to deliberate. Did I say gaggled? I meant gathered, but gaggled works too.

The basic gist of it was this: the Fae are deeply intertwined with Otherworld. Each of the courts that rules them represents a season of the year. The Spring and Summer Courts are seelie. In modern meaning this implies that they are a combination of happy, lucky, blessed, and holy, well a sort of holy anyway. The Autumn and Winter Courts are unseelie, implying they are unhappy, misfortunate, and unholy. The courts tend to rule by committee and persuasive argument. To put it simply, the four courts were parliament millennia before the Magna Carta was signed. Although the parliament analogy doesn’t quite fit. the Fae have no king… no monarch at all, and even the Americans have a President, so I don’t suppose you can say they more resemble the American Congress either. Instead, The four courts are a power unto themselves ruling over this jewel of a city that is the prize of the crown that is Tír na nÓg.

I stood surrounded by lords of various houses of the four courts on all sides. They convened on a circular stone floor under the open sky, surrounded by a ring of standing stones. A smaller ring of stone thrones divided into quarters stood upon the floor in which the lords of the various houses sat.

“You say this person you have brought here to Avalon is part Fae,” Lord Drachenfrost, one of the leading voices in the four courts said as he paced the floor before the seated houses of the winter court opposite me, “but you fail to disclose her lineage. Do you see why we object?”

Drachenfrost had long silver-white hair which he wore bound in long locks down his back and over each shoulder. Like all the Lords of the Winter Court he wore garments of black and dark grey with an ornate silver circlet set with a smoky grey gemstone cut to resemble the profile of a dragon rampant on his brow.

“For goodness sakes,” I called back, “nobody outside the houses of the Winter Court cares about the girl’s lineage!” I turned and faced the Spring, Summer, and Autumn Courts. “Honestly, do any of you care even one whit?”

The Lords of the Spring and Summer Courts shook their heads, and the Lords of the Autumn Court remained silent. I turned back and faced Lord Drachenfrost and shrugged at him in my frustration. “There, you see? You use familial lineage as a means to feel superior to everybody else, even the lords of the other houses. You’re mad, the whole lot of ya!”

There came loud mummering from the lords of the Winter Court, and Lord Drachenfrost balled up his fists and walked straight toward me.

“Insults will only achieve greater resistance to your guest staying in Avalon, Buckleberry. You and your Summer Court may not have a care in the world, but we of the Winter Court are deeply concerned with the security of Avalon.

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