Shades of Fae by J L Myers

Author:J L Myers [Myers, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

I gasped awake and then spluttered, coughing up vile black water as I rolled to my side. My body ached all over, burning like I’d been branded by hot pokers. My lungs felt like they were overinflated balloons that had been stretched out by bucket loads of water, deflating as I spewed the water out and fought to breathe at the same time. I was wet and cold. My eyelids blinked against what felt like sand, desperate to see where I was while reflexively closing to protect the sensitive layers of my sore eyes.

I fought to hear as my pulse pounded in my ears. Was I in danger? Was I alone? Was I even alive?

Planting one numb hand on the marshy ground, logy sensations made my bones feel like they were filled with solid lead. A grunt left my mouth as I pushed onto my knees and forced my body to support my weight. My ruined dress clung to me, the wet material making me shiver. I swiped at my face with the back of my free hand, clumsily removing some of the grit from my eyes.

All around was quiet, and as I blinked over and over again, some semblance of sight began to return. An eerie light spilled down from three moons of different sizes in the sky, giving life to the shapes that surrounded me.

“I found it,” I croaked then coughed, spraying the last of the black from my mouth. Taking a testing, deep breath, I slumped onto my legs and took it all in. A forest of zero life and only death. Backed by a black pond that was the only source of water in sight, I was surrounded. Trees stood to attention all around me, tall and gangly, black and bare of leaves. They were thick and tangled, ugly and creepy at the same time.

And now I had to wonder…why had the small Fae boy wanted me to come here?

There was nothing to see. Only death and the smell of rotting earth.

I glanced down at the pond I sat by. How in the Shaede had I gotten here, and what had happened to the lake and the thicket of brambles? And then I remembered his voice as the cobwebs disintegrated from my mind. I’d heard him over and over, followed his demands and almost died in the process.

I won’t let you drown.

I remembered the stalking apparition’s last words before the lake pulled me under. Had Casper the creepy ghost saved my life and brought me here? Or had he let me drown only to wake up in my own personal Hell?

With sensations and mobility returning to my body, my hand traveled to my thigh and I pinched myself hard.

“Ouch.” The instant pain hit me like a memory and brought a smile to my face that was about so much more than just being alive. “Now what?”

A strange static radiated all around, playing with gravity to make glittery specks float in the dense air. Was it magic? I looked around, wondering what I was meant to do next.

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