Sanyare by Megan Haskell

Author:Megan Haskell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Portal Fantasy Adventure, Fantasy Novel, Elves, Pixies, Faeries, Faerie Tales, Fairies, Fairy Tales, Mythology, Folklore
Publisher: Trabuco Ridge Press
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

WITHIN MOMENTS OF Daenor’s and the queen’s departure, eight Summer Realm guards entered the room, fanning out in a wide half-circle around the door to Rie’s cage. For a split second, she considered draining them, just to prove she could, but that was a petty thought and wouldn’t help anything. In fact, it would void Norgeledil’s agreement with Daenor. It was too much risk for too little reward, since she could hardly run and escape.

Her wounds were healing quickly, but not quickly enough to give her the strength and speed needed for battle. No, she would bide her time. There would be another way to get out of this mess.

The center guard stepped forward, an old fashioned key extended in one hand. “Stand in the center.” His face, heavily tattooed in the way of the fire sidhe warriors, suggested that any objection would happily be met with force.

Rie did as asked, one slow shuffling step after another, the chains dragging along the stone floor. It only took four small steps, but it seemed like an eternity. Every movement sent shooting pains throughout her body. Every breath an agony.

The guard stepped into the cage and unlocked the chains. Eight sets of eyes watched her warily, expecting, or perhaps hoping, some kind of defiance. They were giving Rie more credit than she deserved. She was alone and outnumbered, weaponless, in pain, and exhausted. She wasn’t sure she could have fought a child, let alone eight armed fire sidhe warriors.

She didn’t move until the guard motioned her forward. When she stepped outside the cage, he connected the chains to four guards. She left the same way she’d arrived, but with a few more bumps and bruises.

Night had fallen in the time Rie had been asleep, stars peeking at her from behind the jungle plants that covered the palace island. A black shadow flitted across the sky, likely one of the barong flying watch overhead. It seemed the fire sidhe were taking no chances that Rie would get away, and they didn’t want any of the common residents to know it. Odd.

Stumbling toward the portal through the torch-lit streets, pulled and prodded by the fire sidhe guards, Rie couldn’t help but feel a failure. She had tried to bring some justice to the world, but every action she took resulted in death, imprisonment, and destruction.

Was this the end? Was war inevitable? Would the rulers of the upperworlds extend their reign for another thousand years through the extermination of all who opposed them?

It seemed unlikely that anyone could successfully fight the combined forces of the Upper Realm and Summer Court. The water fae had fled to the depths of the Human Realm oceans. The Shadow Realm, though strong, stood alone against the combined tide of spirit and fire magics. And the humans remained oblivious to it all.

Rie thought back through the events of the last six months. From the beginning, she had been a pawn in the power struggled between realms. Could she have done something differently to end this conflict before it began? She didn’t think so.

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