Faerie Unraveled by Linda Jordan

Author:Linda Jordan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Metamorphosis Press
Published: 2016-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22 ~ Adaire

Adaire trudged along behind the others. Glenna and Pearce walked directly ahead of her. Their arms interwoven, heads together. They’d chosen to walk on a bike path beside the road cutting through the forest.

The sun streaming through the new spring growth of the maple trees filled her heart. It could only have been better if she wasn’t lugging around this human body on the outside of her own. But she was.

She loved the smell of the leaves, sweet and green. The flashes of brown, reds and yellows as birds flitted between branches. The deep throated jungle call of the pileated woodpecker mingled with the chicka-dee-dee-dee of the small gray, black and white birds. A hummingbird buzzed past her head.

Adaire felt tired. Dryads normally stayed in one forest, they didn’t wander far. She just wanted to stay in one place and be.

She didn’t want to travel from town to town, then be shut up in some stuffy abandoned building while Egan and Skye tried to get the necessary money and IDs. She certainly wasn’t looking forward to getting on a plane.

A boat wasn’t ideal either. That’s how she’d gotten to the U.S. in the first place, hundreds of years ago. It had been awful.

Perhaps she should have stayed in Faerie.

She tried to remember why she’d left. But it was so long ago. She’d lived so many human lives since then. Learning new skills, learning how to be with humans, how to talk to them. Even how their systems worked.

Faerie had seemed rotten somehow. Like an apple filled with bruising at the core, but no visible signs as to why that should be so. And then there was the loss of Ashleigh. She hadn’t been able to bear that. Not and stay in Faerie. Adaire had exiled herself out into the world to be miserable and grieve.

What would they find when they returned?

Would anything have changed?

A car raced by them, loud music blaring through the closed windows. The smelly exhaust lingered long after the car had gone by.

Skye and Egan were in front. Arguing, as they often did. This time it was about which way to go.

“I think we should head East. Towards the coast,” said Skye.

“We already did that. We hit the two-bit tourist towns. They don’t have the criminals we need. Yeah, you’ve gotten us a lot of money. But we need IDs. We need to go to a city,” said Egan.

“There’s no place to hide in a city,” said Skye.

“We hide on the street. Just like the homeless.”

“That’s not safe,” she said.

“With all of us together, we’ll be fine. Safer than wandering out here, waiting for the Fomorians to find us.”

“We haven’t seen them for days.”

“They aren’t done with us yet,” said Egan.

Adaire ignored their argument. Skye wouldn’t hold out for long. She was a sylph. Fire always beat air. Always. Only water could slow down fire. Skye arguing with Egan just added wind to fan the flame.

Plus, he was right. They had enough money. To continue on with their plan, they needed IDs.

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