Daughter of Light and Shadows by Anna McKerrow

Author:Anna McKerrow [McKerrow, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786814647
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2018-10-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

‘Can’t you feel it? It’s got colder. And there’s this loud knocking, like, pretty much going on all day and all night now,’ Rav hugged his arms around his chest and shivered. ‘If this goes on I’m going to have to move. I can’t live here with it like this.’

Faye walked slowly around the circumference of the living room, which was still sparsely furnished. In her mind’s eye she had a sudden vision of what it could be like – golden shafts of sun slanting through the floor-to-ceiling windows, through diaphanous gauzy curtains that floated on the breeze coming in from the sea outside; soft chairs in neutral pink and silver velvet; elegant, simple furniture, with tall, rose-gold-coloured lamps in the corners, ready to be lit in the evening when the windows would be thrown open to watch the moon rise over the waves. Above the modern fireplace, in which artificial logs were burning behind a glass screen, she imagined a seven-pointed star, made of opals.

She ran her hand over the back of the leather sofa and caught sight of the opal ring on her thumb. The rose-gold lamps were like the precious gold that sang on her skin; an opalescent glow that shot unexpected trajectories of rainbow light from inside itself. Her vision for this room was a kind of homage to faerie, she realised: or, perhaps, a move to bring the house in sympathy with the energy it rested upon and within.

Faye could not feel the cold of which Rav spoke; in fact, as she closed her eyes and saw the room as it should be, she was filled with a warm joy.

‘It feels fine to me.’ She made her way to the fireplace and stood in front of it, gauging the temperature. ‘In fact, I’m actually a bit hot over here.’ She took her coat off and unwrapped her scarf. She listened for a moment, too, but heard nothing. ‘I can’t hear any funny sounds. Are you sure you’re not imagining it? Or maybe you’re a bit under the weather? That would explain feeling cold. Maybe you’d better go to bed?’

Rav looked at her with an odd expression. ‘Faye. It’s freezing in here. Put your coat back on.’

‘No! Really. I’ll be too warm.’ She shook her hair over her shoulders.

‘There! That sound! You couldn’t hear that?’ He pointed to the long glass hallway and stared at her expectantly.

Beautiful singing was drifting through the house now; Faye’s whole body responded to it with joy. It was different to the fast reel the faeries danced to in the great hall: this was a lilting song that wove itself like water. It flowed through the room, a song made of delicate stairs of crystal and faint, tinkling bells. Faye followed the lone female voice out to the hallway with a pull of longing in her heart. She walked as if she was in a dream, her arms held in front of her, eyes half-closed. She was being called by this beautiful song, back to where she belonged now.

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