Healing Glass by Jackie Keswick

Author:Jackie Keswick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epic fantasy, fantasy romance, mm fantasy romance, MM Action Adventure Romance, friends to lovers romance
Publisher: Jackie Keswick
Published: 2019-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

AN ARGUMENT RAGED IN Gawran’s large reception room when Minel came downstairs two hours later. He’d made the charms, enhancing them for healing as they began to cool. He’d never show off the pieces with pride—small balls of glass filled with bubbles and streaks of colour as irregular as a toddler’s first attempts at drawing. Having been cooled too swiftly, the glass would most likely shatter and crack before long, but for now each small sphere sat in a stone box filled with sand and hummed with healing power. He’d kept one of the spheres with him and had set the other on the table beside Cornelia’s bed while he’d sung to her.

Her father had spoken the truth. Cornelia’s talent blazed through the pallor the illness cast over her. Minel sensed her determination to be healthy and useful, and despite what had been done to him and Falcon he kissed her forehead and wished her well.

Now, he wanted to return to the warrior he loved.

Well, that and food. After enhancing the glass and adding weaves of protection to Cornelia’s room he was famished. And grateful that Master Dorian was bonded to a craft master.

The dining table in the common room groaned under more food than Minel could imagine eating in three days. A magnificent pie sat in the middle, surrounded by small dishes of pickled vegetables including the fiercely salty and fiendishly hot peppers he loved to nibble while he worked. The warriors preferred simpler fare than the food served in the floating city and he hadn’t seen the peppers since he’d come to live with Falcon. A roast chicken sat next to the pie, surrounded by baby carrots. There were sausages in gravy, bread, cheese, broiled fish and even a baked ham... Minel’s mouth watered at the sight and his stomach growled loud enough to interrupt the argument conducted in fierce low tones by the other three men in the room.

“Master Minel!” The mix of hope and fear in Gawran’s eyes was hard to see. Minel wondered if, a few years down the road, he’d look that way every time Falcon’s troop came home. Then it occurred to him that he wouldn’t have to stay behind. And having spent most of his life in the floating city, the thought staggered him. He’d read that hope was a fearsome mistress. He’d never understood the sentiment before.

“She sleeps,” he assured. “And she responded to the healing. I’ve woven extra protections through her room to aid her recovery.”

“Thank you. Please come and eat. Master Dorian tells me that enhancing your glass leaves you exceedingly hungry.”

“It does. And I thank you.” Minel reached for a trencher and loaded it with slices of pie and sausage, chicken and vegetables. He filled a small clay dish with peppers and carried his meal over to the hearth where Javier and Master Dorian sat with tankards of ale.

“What did I interrupt?” he queried as he folded himself onto the bench and settled the tray across his lap. The pie, tightly packed with pork and venison in jelly, tasted as delicious as he’d imagined.

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