Faery Revenge by Donna Joy Usher

Author:Donna Joy Usher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780992599980
Publisher: Donna Joy Usher
Published: 2016-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

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I woke with a soft hand on my shoulder and a heavy lump on my chest. It turned out that the hand belonged to Isla and the lump was Scruffy. He licked my face as I opened my eyes.

I could hear a drum beat, echoing in the distance. ‘Goblins? Really?’ I blinked my eyes a few times and then said, ‘Eric, lights please.’

The house responded by flicking on my lights.

Isla sat beside me, her long black hair tousled from sleep. ‘What is she up to?’ she murmured.

Mia sat up from where she was pressed against my side and shook herself.

‘I never know.’ I shrugged my shoulders. ‘She’s far too clever for me.’

Isla held her hand out to Mia and the little monster climbed over me to scramble up her arm. She let out a laugh as Mia’s tongue found her cheek. ‘Tickles,’ she said before turning her attention back to me. ‘The chess game is not won till the King is in checkmate.’

‘I don’t play chess.’

‘Well, that’s something we are going to have to fix in the future.’

A possibility of a life where there was no urgency, no need to be constantly thinking of the next attack, the next assault, came to me. I realised that there were voids in history. Times when there had been decades, no centuries, where the most dramatic thing to happen was a feud between two neighbours. Suddenly, the idea of being able to play a lazy game of chess was appealing.

But that time was not now.

I jumped out of bed and pulled on my fighting leathers, slapping my blades into their holsters and strapping my sword to my waist. Emerald?

Coming now.

I got a mental image of her, Lance and Arthur waiting for us in the field.

‘Let’s end this,’ I said to Isla, ‘before it begins.’

‘My type of fight.’ She grinned and hefted a bow and quiver bristling with arrows onto her shoulder.

Mum and Radismus were already in the kitchen. I couldn’t help but notice Mum’s nightie. Lace and skin were a predominant feature that had been lacking in her old one. I squished that thought before it could mentally scar me, and said, ‘What are you doing?’

‘We heard the drums.’ Fear trembled in her voice.

Radismus grasped her hands. ‘There now love, Izzy won’t let anything happen to us.’ He looked at me as if to reassure himself that that was true.

Mum pulled herself up, as if she should be the one protecting me.

‘Hey.’ I pulled her into my arms. ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got this.’

Isla let out a polite cough.

‘Fine.’ I rolled my eyes at her. ‘We’ve got this.’

Grams burst out of her wing of the house with Lionel right behind her. She was dressed in full camouflage gear, including her black balaclava. His striped pyjamas looked ludicrous with a sword buckled to his waist.

‘Oh good.’ Grams slid to a stop next to Mum. ‘I thought we’d missed you.’

I let out a sigh. There would be no stopping them, and Grams had proved herself to be quite valuable in our earlier staged attacks on the field.

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