Heart of the Mists (Bound to the Fae Book 9) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2021-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

17

Talia

“An iron mine,” Celia repeats. She braces one elbow against the table in the border castle’s meeting room and pinches the bridge of her nose as if Madoc’s report has given her a headache.

“Why not?” Laoni mutters from where she’s sitting at the other end of the table. She shakes her head as if we’ve purposefully conspired to make this situation as difficult as possible.

Terisse frowns. “Do we have any idea where this specific iron mine is?”

Madoc exhales slowly. “It was hard enough dragging even a little information out of the newest Murk arrivals. They’re still getting a sense of how they’re going to fit in here among the rest of you. And I’m not sure how many more details they actually know. It’s quite possible they were telling the truth that they had no idea.”

“Are there a lot of iron mines in the human world?” Donovan asks. “How easily could we narrow it down?”

“It’d be like looking for a needle in a haystack, unfortunately,” Whitt puts in from where he’s standing just behind Sylas’s seat. “But if we can find other methods to bring to bear—”

“We shouldn’t even be discussing this!” Uzziah sputters. “How can we focus on one—human—boy when both of our realms are under threat?”

My hackles rise. For the first time since this meeting started, I lean forward and let out some of the emotion churning inside me. “It’s not ‘just’ one human boy. He’s my brother, and he’s already nearly died once so you could have your cure. If we can get him away from the Murk, then we’ll have screwed up Orion’s latest plan. The more we undermine him, the less faith his followers will have in him—the more of them we’ll win over.”

“Talia raises a good point,” Corwin says with a tendril of reassurance he extends through our connection. “We’ve made relatively little progress fighting the Murk head-to-head—and I’ll point out that the one major victory we accomplished was based on Talia’s inspiration and only possible with the hard work of her and many other humans. The rat shifters have been beating us when it comes to trickery, so if we can undercut their tricks, we’re taking away their main advantage.”

Thank you, I say to him silently, and he shoots me a quick smile.

Celia stirs in her chair. “I don’t see how we’d be able to get at the boy when we’re much more affected by iron than Orion’s contingent of Murk is. We can hardly send a squadron of humans into this mine to face off against the rats alone.”

I’ve already thought about that, and the knowledge sits heavy in my stomach. “We can’t,” I agree. “But if we could just take a little time to discuss the possibilities… Orion’s managed to out-scheme us more than once. We should be able to challenge him on that level if we all put our minds together, right?”

“The first concern is obviously finding the correct mine,” Sylas says. “We can’t do anything for the boy if we don’t know exactly where he is.

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