Flight of the Phoenix by Alicia Michaels

Author:Alicia Michaels [Michaels, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult romance, fairytale retallings, bear shapeshifter, epic fantasy, paranormal fantasy
Publisher: Marion Press
Published: 2017-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

ROTHATIN STOOD AT THE wooden rail of The Adrah, gazing out at the stars as the floating sky ship drifted slowly through the night. In a few short hours, they would arrive back in Fallada. From there, they would have very little time to rest in Goldun before they must depart for Mollac. In the abandoned building where they’d discovered Phaedra and the other missing girls, they had also found what remained of the Eye of Mollac—which had been shattered during the fight.

Eranna now knew that her daughter had taken control of Mollac, and began liberating its people. She also had enough power to return and fight to get it back.

A skirmish was coming, he felt certain. Which meant he would once more face his brother on the battlefield. Kalodan had sworn his allegiance to Eranna, and likely acted as her lover as well if the rumors could be believed. He had once tried to show Kalodan mercy, but that could no longer be an option. On the night he had held Jocylene in his arms and fought to save her from death, he’d sworn to kill Kalodan himself. If it was the last thing he did, Rothatin would ensure that his younger brother paid for the pain and heartache he had caused for so many people in Fallada. That he had harmed Jocylene in the process only added kindling to the fires of his rage.

Moving away from his place near the bow of the ship, he headed toward the staircase leading into the lower cabins. Sidestepping the crew members working the large steam engine that functioned to keep the ship afloat, he tracked a swift path to the room where they were keeping Princess Gytha—Maxine, they called her in the human world.

Pushing the door open slowly, he held out hope for a moment that she might be awake, perhaps in a panic over waking up in a strange place.

No such luck.

The High Princess of Fallada remained where he had left her, sleeping in her bed. Selena and Gretchen had taken the time to change her into clean clothes and plait her silvery-white hair into a braid which rested beside her on the pillow. Due to the stark black color of her eyebrows and lashes, Rothatin supposed she had not been born with the shocking hue—even though the Fae blood from her father’s lineage would have made it possible. All Faeries possessed some shade of blonde hair, though he’d never seen any whiter than his until now. He must ask Phaedra later if something had happened to change the hair from the inky black he felt certain it had been before.

If not for the fact that they’d recovered both Phaedra and Maxine alive, Rothatin might have counted this particular mission a failure. They’d failed to recover the Eye of Mollac before Eranna could glimpse the happenings in Mollac, and they’d lost three human girls. However, as one of the Fae, he was all-too aware of the fact that all beings were subject to the whims of destiny and fate.

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