Earl and Fairy: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 3] by Mizue Tani

Author:Mizue Tani
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Secret Art of Resurrection

Although he had only seen her face through the veil, Edgar was convinced that the medium looked just like Ermine. The tides of the merrows’ sea had never returned her body. That fact had instilled in him a faint hope that she might have been alive somewhere. But if that was true, why had she not returned to him? Was it because she had been unable to shake free of the Prince’s shackles? If that medium really was Ermine, it meant that his underlings were still using her.

“My lord, I am wholly unconvinced that my sister is alive.”

That was the first thing Raven said when he brought tea to Edgar’s study. Apparently, Ermine had been on his mind as much as his master’s.

“If you were to meet her, you would find yourself more hopeful.”

“Her face and voice might be identical, but I can only imagine that to be a coincidence.”

Ermine was Raven’s half-sister; they shared only their mother. Although related, Raven’s dark skin categorized him as foreign, whereas Ermine could be mistaken for Caucasian.

Edgar intertwined his fingers on the desk and looked up at Raven. “Explain.”

“I do not believe she would be working under the Prince again. She has no reason to, and I cannot believe that she would hold her life so dear were she to find herself in that situation. Not after giving it up so willingly before.”

Ermine had allowed the Prince to control her and betrayed her master all for the sake of staying with Edgar. On the run, the three of them had only had each other to rely upon; everyone else had been potentially hostile. However, Ermine believed that once Edgar had obtained the earldom, that would change, and she would no longer be special to him. So she had leaked information to the Prince to slow down their escape. Though Edgar had run and run, he had remained in the clutches of his enemy.

That had all changed when he had met Lydia. Her abilities had finally allowed him to achieve the impossible task of becoming an earl. Ermine had then killed herself to free Edgar from the Prince’s dominion. It was unthinkable that she should appear before him again, and Raven couldn’t see why she should want to return to the Prince if she were alive.

“There is a way to be sure whether it is truly her.” Edgar pushed a letter over to Raven’s side of the desk. It had only just arrived. “That is an invitation from Mrs. Collins. It would seem that the doubts I voiced were not enough to have me stricken from the list.”

The letter, addressed to Lord Middleworth, had of course been delivered to a different address.

“Mrs. Collins writes that we shall have the opportunity to meet her daughter at her villa near Hastings. Therefore, the medium should also be staying there.”

“Will you go, my lord?”

“Naturally.”

“Understood.” Raven’s impassive expression remained unchanged as he offered his master a crumpled-up newspaper. “This was on the floor in Miss Carlton’s office.

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