Blood Faerie - Urban Fantasy (Caledonia Fae) by Drummond India

Author:Drummond, India [Drummond, India]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Published: 2011-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Eilidh and Saor did the sensible thing. They stayed close to the roads, but tried to avoid traffic. Saor, still attuned to fae nocturnal habits and not comfortable away from the healing essence of the Otherworld, let his path diverge from Eilidh’s a few times. She also knew he would sometimes wander into the forests alone at night, while she slept near a roadside restaurant or car park. It wasn’t comfortable and it didn’t smell nice, but the further north they went, the human settlements grew more sparse and gaps in the kingdom territories grew fewer. Saor argued that they should move at night for that very reason. He didn’t want to sleep when they would be most vulnerable. Eilidh pointed out that their passage through the territories would be more likely to be noticed at night. They compromised by only stopping for a couple of hours at a time.

Saor was unhappy about sticking to the roads because of the smells and the added distance, but he had less reason to be cautious. He didn’t have a death sentence hanging over his head. Even though the fae had much stronger constitutions than humans and slept less, the trip wearied Eilidh. She was not accustomed to keeping the incredibly fast pace. In her church tower, she often dreamed of running through the highlands the way she and Saor had done during their childhood. But the time away from her homeland had taken its toll. Running two hundred miles tired her in a way it wouldn’t have thirty years earlier.

Saor was aloof, and she could tell he had something on his mind beyond his annoyance at the human encroachment into fae territory. The fae didn’t own property, of course, not in the way humans did. They did, however, respect certain boundaries, especially those created by the ebb and flow of magical mists from the Otherworld.

He didn’t share what was bothering him until they stopped for the last time before approaching the Isle of Skye. They’d run for days, sometimes having to go long distances out of their way to avoid a cluster of fae or an Otherworld gateway. Once they got to the smaller roads, the lands were awash in fae magic, and there was no longer anywhere to hide. Even the human homes dotted around were not enough to disrupt the flows.

Eilidh had grown more uncomfortable with each passing mile. Saor watched well, and his affinity for the earth helped him sense even the delicate footsteps of any fae within a quarter mile. The extra expenditure of energy tired him though, and the strain of worry made Eilidh snappish and edgy. She was surrounded now. If they were caught, she had little hope of escape.

When they stopped near the village of Eilanreach for the night, their last rest before crossing the sound, Saor went into the woods to hunt. He returned later with a brace of rabbits, which he dropped at Eilidh’s feet, before walking to a nearby stream to wash.

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