Frey (Melissa Wright) by Melissa Wright

Author:Melissa Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Sword & Sorcery, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult, Epic, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781475005660
Publisher: Lulu
Published: 2011-12-06T06:00:00+00:00

We were alone now—Ruby and I—and I was sure this was going to hurt more than my other training. She untied her cloak and tossed it to the rocks, where it landed with a muffled sound. She was smiling a touch as she reached her left hand across her waist to a black hoop there. Closing her fist, she pulled it out and around as a long black trail curved in its wake and came to rest softly at her side. A whip. Oh yes, this would hurt. I loosed my cloak and tossed it aside, lowering myself in a defensive stance, hands out and ready. Crack!

Okay, not ready. “Ow! Mother Earth!” I yelled. Blood trickled at the strike point.

Ruby giggled a little. “Okay, we start slower.” She considered for a moment. “Maybe we work on your attacks instead of defense.”

I relaxed my stance. “Um, I don’t really have any attacks.”

She hadn’t worried when she'd asked me to assail her, but learning I lacked attack skills seemed to trouble her immensely. “Well, then, I suppose we had better focus on getting you some. How to begin?” She was talking to herself now, I was almost sure. My mind started to wander. I listened for the men below, wondering what they were doing there. “I‘m afraid we will have to work with your anger,” she said, smiling. “It seemed to work with your lunch.” I remembered the meat I had burnt when she’d been trying to provoke me with Steed and flushed. “Yes, this could work,” she hummed with a sly grin.

“Let me see … oh yes, I’ve got it.” She began stepping a slow circle around me, talking as she walked. “The dreams you had… after the fairy dust, do you remember them?” Oh. “I have a few questions, you see. You had plenty to say about someone as you slept. You mentioned how his mouth tasted … muscles under his shirt. And, well, I was curious just who you meant.” No. “It couldn’t have been Chevelle; oh you should have seen his face. He was livid.” No. “Steed was certainly enjoying it, but, my dear, he won’t spill the secret to me. Whose strong back where you wrapped around, whose dark eyes—”

I was mortified and she was using it to taunt me. There was nowhere to go with the humiliation, it was too much, and it turned to fury as she continued. I snapped. The flames that had been coursing through me burst in my hands. She laughed and tossed her head. “Oh you should have heard it. You gave us such interesting details!” The image of Chevelle hearing my dreams, the sound of their laughter when I woke …

I knew what she wanted and I gave it to her. Fire shot from both my hands toward her, hotter than any I’d ever produced. I felt the warmth on my face and heard the slosh of Ruby’s heeled boots as the patches of snow melted beneath her steps. She batted away the flames and smiled.

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