Iron and Ivy by Brie Tart

Author:Brie Tart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dapper Cat Books

As soon as I woke up, I checked to make sure Rio had left and rushed through my hygiene routine. Once I washed the superficial layer of grime off, I charged through Daire’s mirror like Abuela went for the futon when her show had a new episode.

Daire had reshaped my dirt mound to be a small armchair. A steaming slab of ground beef shoved between two thick slices of bread waited in it. I lifted up the top piece of the meat sandwich. It had chunky red gravy slathered on it. “Is this supposed to be ketchup?”

“Good day to you too.” Daire glanced up from his copying. “It’s supposed to be a hamburger.”

“You made me a burger?”

Daire’s cheeks went as red as his tomato concoction. “I wanted to see how it compared.”

“Oh, so I’m a test subject.” I sat in the dirt chair and set the plate in my lap.

“You need not eat it.” Daire rearranged his seat to face me.

“I’ll scarf down anything if it means you finishing that story.”

“Of course!” Daire smiled so big his eyes twinkled. “Last we left Midir and Etain, Fuamnach had lulled them into trusting her…”

Before setting up her plan, Fuamnach met with her godfather and got a spell to kill Etain. She made a big dinner for her husband and his new wife when they got back home. Everybody thought Etain was safe as Fuamnach played the nice hostess. That’s when she cast her magic. Etain dissolved into a puddle of water on the spot.

Fuamnach thought she’d won and ran off while Midir was trying to revive his true love. After Fuamnach left, the spell backfired and a butterfly flew out of the water. Etain had survived.

Points to Midir, he stuck by Etain even though all she could do was flutter around his ear. It was only a matter of time before Fuamnach found out her spell hadn’t worked and that Midir was still happy. She did the ultimate overkill and sent a tornado that blew Etain all over Tir Na Nog.

Butterfly Etain managed to escape to the human world. However, her luck didn’t hold out when she landed in a noble lady’s drink. The liquid weighed down Etain’s wings too much and the human woman swallowed her whole.

I winced, both for butterfly Etain and the lady that drank her.

“That wasn’t the end, though,” Daire corrected. “The chieftain’s wife became pregnant shortly after that. Her child grew to be the most beautiful woman in Eire, with the same red-gold hair and fair features as Midir’s lost love. And what do you think that girl was named?”

“Something Irish?”

“Well of course. That goes without saying.” Daire deadpanned me, breaking character a second. “The chieftain and his wife named their new daughter Etain, for her striking resemblance to the fairest maiden of the Aos Si.”

“Did Fuamnach find out?”

“No, she thought her deed finished. But she set back to Midir’s home in Bri Leith for one final task…”

Before Midir found out Etain had been reborn as a human, when he was about to give up looking for her, Fuamnach visited him for the last time.

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