Darach's Cariad by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, magic, gay romance, mm romance, fire magic, eoin, kian
Publisher: RJ Scott

Chapter 7

Llewellyn Morgan, Ceithin’s father, was a whole mountainside of intimidation. Not only did he have amber Fire, he was a big bear of a man with silver hair and a voice that was deep and certain and, at the moment, only barely this side of damn scary.

“You managed to save my son from the Council. We are grateful,” he said as he held his hand out in welcome. Darach took the offered hand, excuses already on his lips.

“He didn’t—” Ceithin attempted to interrupt. Darach smirked inwardly as Llewellyn pointedly stared Ceithin into silence.

Quite a few more people stopped to see Ceithin and the City man he had brought home with him. The sprawling one-story cabin where the Morgan family resided swarmed with Cariad as people stopped by to welcome the traveler home. Several of the visitors thanked Darach. But, and he had to be honest with himself, Ceithin was right. Darach had done little to help the Cariad escape. Darach ate with Ceithin’s small family, listening to the bickering between Brigid and her husband, Alan, and Ceithin. At some points, Alan and Ceithin joined forces to annoy Brigid, but clearly she knew their measure. They were a normal family, and no one threw magik and curses, no one acted any differently than Darach’s friends in the City.

They were normal.

And that realization shook Darach to the core. He’d heard so many horror stories of the Cariad and what they did to City prisoners.

Still, Darach needed to get home, away from the Valley, or over to the Otherworld and Kian. On more than one occasion during supper, he made the effort to form the sentence in his head. Nothing happened. In spite of his feelings to the contrary, if he returned home, how would he learn more of Kian? What would happen to him back in the City? Would the Council exact punishment for his disobedience by removing his Fire? Was he doomed to remain there with these criminals in this village? And why did they not look more like the illustrations from the books he had read as a child? They weren’t rough and raw and ready to kill.

In fact, they were clean, tidy, friendly, and smiling. Not one of them had leered at him, propositioned him, threatened him, or indeed done anything to suggest he was not a simple guest here. He listened and learned as much as he could from what he heard. They appeared to be a community of farmers, living from the land in this beautiful valley. Peaceful and calm, they used nature to its fullness, and the Valley itself was warded against intruders. There were groups of Cariad spread out in this world, all communities living in apparent peace, and what he noticed most was that not one person who spoke used words of fear or intimidation. Years of hearing the worst and then being presented with reality made Darach uneasy. He had compartmentalized the Cariad into the same box as the devils in the night and the ghosts from old criminals, and it was hard to let the instinct to fear go.

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