Faerie Quest: A Feyland Urban Fantasy Tale (The Celtic Fey Book 3) by Roz Marshall

Author:Roz Marshall [Marshall, Roz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eden Press
Published: 2016-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

"…I'VE TRIED…" HER words were drowned by a flash of light, and when she opened her eyes again, Elphin had disappeared. "Wait!" she cried. I need to find out how to get back in. I need to find out how to rescue you. But he was gone, and in the space where he'd been the grass looked leaden and grey in the dim light of gloaming.

What just happened? She glanced around her. Had Cailleach appeared and done something? But there was no sign of the witch. The sky, however, had turned a deep navy, like finest velvet set with sparkling rhinestones where the early stars peeked through the firmament. Perhaps the time of transition is over and the portal has closed.

She shivered. I should get home. I'll speak to Phemie in the morning.

But as she started back down the hill, something drew her steps towards the farm, rather than home. A tugging at her heartstrings, and a feeling that, somehow, she was meant to go there, not home.

As she got nearer, hurrying down the dirt track beside the hay field, that feeling intensified. And clarified. Ghost. Ghost needed her.

By the time she reached the farmyard, she was practically running, heedless of the dark. Ghost's whinny greeted her as she rounded the corner to the barn where Sonya kept him, even though he wouldn't yet be able to see her. She flicked the lights on and hurried to the stable. "What's wrong?"

His head came over the door to meet her, and she rubbed his forehead. Then he looked meaningfully at her, and over his shoulder at the water buckets in the corner of the stable.

"What is it?" Glancing around her, worried that Sonya would somehow pounce out of the shadows and accuse her of tampering with her horse, Corinne pulled the bolt and opened Ghost's stable door. She patted his neck. "I don't know why she's got you in, anyway. You'd be much happier outside."

He nuzzled her hand, then threw up his head and stamped his foot.

"Okay, okay." She pushed past him to the corner of the stable and checked the buckets.

They were empty.

She reported me the the NAPC for not caring properly for my horse, and now she doesn't even leave him anything to drink. Grabbing the buckets, Corinne rushed outside to the tap, anger kindling in her stomach.

As she stood waiting for the buckets to fill, the noise of the rushing water and the faint hammering in the water pipes filled her ears, and calmed her fury, so that by the time she was lugging the buckets back to Sonya's stable, her temper had cooled.

But her resolve hadn't.

"I'll get you back, Ghost," she whispered, scratching his ears as he drank thirstily from the buckets. "Somehow. I'll get you back."

-::-

With a last "Goodnight," to Ghost, Corinne flicked the lights off and stepped back into the darkness of the farmyard, the reality of her current situation coming into sharp focus.

She was a mile from home, a walk that was possible in the evening light, but treacherous in the pitch dark.

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