Beyond the Veil: A Gay Romantasy (Endangered Fae Book 4) by Angel Martinez

Author:Angel Martinez [Martinez, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entwined Publishing
Published: 2025-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Altered humans: for the purposes of this reference, magically altered humans are those whose kelan structures have undergone sufficient changes to alter key human characteristics. While altered humans such as vampires (Nightwalkers or Bloodstalkers in fae terminology) may or may not have other magical abilities, they have gained certain magical attributes not present at birth.

Definitions, The Compendium of the Magically Sensitive, 4th Edition, Dr. Nathan Cooper

We have to get to the damn prison soon. Theo slowed the truck and leaned his head out into the moonlight, taking a deep breath of night air. It’s not that far but we’re moving too damn slow.

Their third night of travel, he was feeling steadier. Limpet had fussed and harried him after that first disaster until Theo had agreed to rest during the heat of the day. The selkie snuggled up with him under the truck, but Theo hadn’t touched him in anything more than a brotherly way since his feeding. Limpet was probably still alive because of it.

Now, though, his traveling companion wasn’t looking too great. Pale and restless, Limpet ate less every day and hardly drank much more. He shifted on the seat again, obviously uncomfortable, though whenever Theo asked, he said he was fine.

Uncomfortable. What sorry doctor ever thought that was a good way to describe pain? “You need to get out and walk around?”

“No. Thank you. We need to kee—” Limpet stopped mid-word and shot up in his seat.

At first, Theo thought he’d spotted something, but his eyes weren’t tracking on anything. He hung his head out the window, sniffing much as Theo had just done.

“You okay, little bit?”

“I…I…Theo!” Limpet pointed out the windshield to the left. “You have to go that way! Please, please, that way!”

“It’s not the way we need to go.” Theo frowned when Limpet clutched his arm, black eyes huge in distress. “At least tell me why. Suddenly you can’t talk?”

“Water,” Limpet choked on the word. “I smell it. Big water for swimming. Theo, please. I know…I…”

“Hey. Easy.” That Limpet could barely put three sentences together disturbed Theo profoundly. I guess a seal in the desert isn’t a good thing, right? “How far, do you think?”

“Close.” Limpet was practically climbing into Theo’s lap in his desperation. “I can smell it.”

Right. Selkie does not equal GPS. “Settle so I can drive. We’ll have to stop for the day soon, anyway. If it ends up not being too far, we’ll look, okay?”

“Look?” Limpet trembled as he sat back down next to Theo, nestled into him as if he would shiver apart without the contact.

“Yes.” Theo put an arm around him and let him lean in. “There might be people. Lots of them.”

“People. I suppose that could be bad,” Limpet murmured. He seemed to rally a bit tucked under Theo’s arm, since he rattled on, “It won’t be salt water, of course. That would be best. But it’s not an ocean, I can tell that from here. Something small. A pool, a pond, a lake, but water. Clean water for swimming.

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