Imprisoned Heir by River Starr

Author:River Starr [Starr, River]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

15

Eos

Pain became the new reality. I surfaced in and out of my own prison every time Nyx fell unconscious and I woke only to find wretched sea fae doing the bare minimum to save our lives. When I’d mustered enough strength to do so, I grabbed their wrists and demanded better attention, a better cure. It was what this Atlantean heir deserved, after all, and these petulant fools had no right to deny me it.

But then I remembered: The sea court I’d once lived in, the one I’d been meant to rule, had been destroyed and sunk beneath the waves thanks to hubris and a deal gone wrong. Our queen at the time, my mother, had made a grave miscalculation regarding allies and a powerful magical weapon. In return, our enemies tore our city apart—and then tore my soul from me, the sole heir of Atlantis.

The same sort of deal had seen my soul bound to Nyx’s.

It wasn’t the ideal outcome. I’d have much rather been bound to a sea fae who actually lived in the new court at Alexandria. At least we’d ended up close to the new city. Which was good because that creature’s venom had put Nyx and me into a state in which I was able to finally remember some of what had happened while I hadn’t been present. Probably only because of the twilight state it had put both Nyx and me in.

These sea fae fools were trying to recreate a magical artifact—a weapon—that had seen the first court’s destruction, and they either didn’t know, or didn’t care.

Idiots. All the more reason to play along and get out of here, then gain power in the sea court by manipulating the stoic but needy male nobles there. An easy game; we just had to earn the right to play it.

Darkness swam around me constantly as Nyx drifted in and out of consciousness. Sometimes I was allowed to surface for long bouts, and at others she shoved me back down into the mental prison I’d inhabited for a year now.

On one particularly long bout of clear control, Dax and his other inmates had crowded around me and tried to ease the pain the best they could with their minimal magic abilities. Only Dax knew the truth, evident by the careful way he avoided my eyes while I was conscious.

That bastard. Coward. Shunning me because of the body I’d been forced to inhabit. It had hardly been my choice.

I loved him all the same. This too would pass, and then we’d be together again. Loving freely and passionately.

But the pain from the creature’s venom was too great, keeping me from voicing everything I wanted to say to Dax. To these other inmates. To the disrespectful sea fae prison guards.

I often viewed Nyx as weak. Her attachment to her sister had left her open to so many attacks and failures, not least of which was my soul being bound to hers.

But now, unable to speak or stay conscious or even move, I realized we were both weak.

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