Lucy at Last by Mary E. Twomey

Author:Mary E. Twomey
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Mary E. Twomey

Seventeen.

Vatten Liv

Jens had been gone for an hour trying to procure the weed. I got the feeling that he was trying to drag out the inevitable. Soon I would be labeled crazy in his mind.

But I wasn’t.

I knew my mom’s voice. I knew the moxie in me wasn’t the only thing I’d gotten from her. I would go down into the river. I would get what I needed.

Bjorn, my favorite troll in an orange cardigan, let us pass after a quick back and forth about the state of Nøkken, which was apparently much the same, but sadder for him without Nik. Kristoffer and the rest of Undraland feared the trolls, but Nik’s determination that a race could be redeemed instead of exterminated gave us reason not to be afraid of this tribe. I kind of loved Nik for his care of the trolls.

Bjorn wasn’t sure about my plan concerning the Will o’ the Wisp, but agreed to watch from his forest a ways off where the other trolls in his tribe were, so no one bothered us.

Jamie was in a dark place as he watched the few tiny ripples from the breeze move the water’s surface. He’d been scarred here, too, and had almost lost his wife to the evils beneath. He wasn’t too thrilled with me.

I didn’t much care.

Tucker leaned against the mountain that rested on the other side of the river along the narrow path, his long legs sprawled out. He patted the grass beside him. “Make yourself useful, darling. Be a good little pillow for me.”

I rolled my eyes, but consented, allowing him to use my lap to rest his head on while he closed his eyes, reclining in peace as the evening sky stared down at us with an invitation to relax. “Had enough nature for one day?”

“You sealed my fate, you know,” he whispered gravely. Though he looked the complete picture of repose, his tone conveyed he was far from sleep. “Telling Jamie to go rule his father’s land and take the throne? Do you have any idea what that entails?”

“I assume we’ll have to argue with Johannes to get him to step down. Jokull, too. If they can’t fall in line, they’ll live among the people, like they made Jamie do when he didn’t live up to their expectations.”

Tucker chuckled, lifting his head a few inches to peck the underside of my jaw. “Not so much an argument as a death match. Winner takes the crown. Johannes is very well guarded. The guards are the only ones the king feeds, so they’re loyal on a life-or-death level.”

I frowned. “I didn’t realize it would have to be so violent. I guess I didn’t think it through.”

“I figured as much. You sentenced me to Tonttu, you know.”

I tried not to let my voice get snappy, but my eyes sharpened in a slight glare as I spoke. “Jamie’s alive despite you. I thought it was clear you didn’t get a vote. After your sixty years of serving his family is up, you can go back to the Other Side and sleep with any number of old ladies.

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