Crowned A Traitor: A Hellish Fairytale by Kate Callaghan

Author:Kate Callaghan [Callaghan, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CallaghanWriter
Published: 2020-07-03T18:30:00+00:00

~12~

On the edge of the Forest, Klara looked at the gravel path. She let her shifting potion reset, feeling exposed out in the open. Too many eyes would be on them as a group.

"We shouldn't use the paths," Klara said, noticing the tracks they were leaving. "And if we get lost in the darkness?" Wolfgang argued with Lottie's head resting on his shoulder.

"We will be harder to track, and I know where we're headed."

They didn't need to know I burnt the map. They didn't even know there had been a map. Lilith had brought her as far as Lokey. Now it was up to Klara to get to Kharon. She had visited the River Ferrier once with her Father. The King thought it was vital for her to meet Death's deliverer.

Arthur was already off the Forest path and walking through the leaves and fallen branches.

“We are wasting time. Move it or stay," Arthur said, and Wolfgang followed without argument.

The group held a steady pace as the hours past. Klara needed the others to keep up if they were to make the Ferrier with time to spare. Kharon was devious at the best of times. Klara recalled her last visit with her Father. The Ferrier had pushed a Creature from the longboat and into the River for merely looking at them wrong. Klara looked over her shoulder to see Wolfgang watching his foot placement as his sister slept on his back. He must be tired from carrying the extra weight for hours, Klara thought as Arthur walked beside her.

“How does it feel to be out of the Castle?” She asked, and Arthur stared up at the trees.

“Strange, I haven’t left that place in decades, I know I’m dead but being out I’ve never felt more alive.”

“Lilith got you out?” Klara tried to hide the sorrow in her voice. “I was just finished the night’s feast when she came and snuck me into the Forest. Lilith knew you had returned before the others.”

“Do you know why Lilith helped us?”

“I think of you as a granddaughter, and Abadan knows this. I’m the first on the list as leverage against you.” Arthur pushed aside a low hanging branch for them to step under. “Lilith released my binding spell to the Castle.”

“How did you know where to go?”

“She told me to head East until I reached the toadstools.’

“You had been there before?”

“Decades ago, Tapped was once a haven for Fae who had been banished from Kalos. When Malum and Kalos were ruled under the Fae Queen, Warlocks used to go and treat any wounded in secret before the treaty was signed.”

Klara had a million and one questions about Arthur and her Father’s past, but she had settled for knowing there were thousands of years’ worth of secrets between them.

Klara studied the Forest floor, “Lilith always acted as though she hated me. Made me fight until my ribs cracked and not just on one occasion. I was surprised when she came to my cell. I was sure she was going to kill me.

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