Faery Forged by Donna Joy Usher

Author:Donna Joy Usher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9925999-0-4
Publisher: Donna Joy Usher
Published: 2015-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

9

Mirror Mirror On The Wall...

When Isla shook me awake I felt like I had slept for days. ‘The banquet starts in an hour. I thought you might want to shower first.’

She was right. I did. I had been sweaty after my fight with Aethan but that was nothing compared with how much I had sweated while I’d slept. The blankets touching my skin felt wet.

When I emerged from the bathroom I found she had laid a dress out on my bed. ‘Thought we should look the part,’ she said.

‘Isilvitania Royal women versus Emstillia Royal women?’

She nodded her head. ‘Round one. Ding ding.’

I laughed and picked up the dress. Sky-blue silk fell to the floor in elegant waves.

‘I thought it would bring out your eyes,’ she said.

‘What are you wearing?’

She pointed to a ruby red dress of the same cut and pulled a face. ’Sorry I only brought two dresses.’

‘That’s two more than me.’

We were quiet for a while as she brushed out my hair. I closed my eyes and let myself pretend I was a child again. It had been too long since someone else had brushed my hair.

Feeling emboldened by the contact between us I said, ‘Isla, why did that man call you oath breaker?’

The brushing stopped and I opened my eyes and turned towards her.

‘You heard that?’ Her eyes were huge in her beautiful face.

I took the brush from her and started working the bristles through her hair. She stared straight ahead for a few moments and then she let out a sigh and slumped down onto the bed.

‘It was a long time ago. Well before you were born.’

My hand hovered above her head. Before I was born?

She let out a tinkle of a laugh. ‘You didn’t realise how old I was. I guess being brought up amongst such short-lived people, ninety years would seem a lifetime.’

‘It is a life-time.’

‘And yet amongst the fae I am still considered a young woman.’

I commenced my brushing. Something to think about later.

‘This is not the first attempt to bind our people with the night faeries. When I was still a child, my hand was promised in marriage to a night faery.’ She let out a rough laugh. ‘I was so young and naïve. So excited about marrying Arra. He was handsome and charming; everything I thought I wanted in a husband.’ She paused again and for a moment I feared she would not continue. ‘The week before our wedding he came to my rooms and forced himself upon me. He was not so charming then. Every night he came and every time the beatings got worse. He took pleasure in my pain.’ Her voice trembled as she continued. ‘I could not marry him. To commit myself to a lifetime of that? I would rather have died.’

I stopped the brushing and sat on the bed next to her, taking one of her hands in mine.

‘He was so clever. He knew by taking my virginity he had sealed my lips. I was too ashamed to tell anyone.

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