Storm Crossed by Dani Harper

Author:Dani Harper [Harper, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503948945
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Green flame consumed the bodies of the water leapers, reducing them to their most basic elements and bearing them away in a swirl of smoke. It didn’t take away the stench, however, an unholy blend of warth piss and rotted fish. The smell would dissipate. The danger would not.

Arms folded, Trahern waited by the sign that named the pleasing collection of tall trees and winding paths as Pioneer Park. A moment later, a small flock of barn swallows swooped out of the sky and landed along the top of the sign, all bobbing and bowing their tiny cobalt-and-russet heads. They reminded him of the blue passerines that circled the uppermost turrets of the Royal Palace. With a careful spell, he’d conscripted them to help him search for fae creatures in an ever-widening circle around Handcastings.

The swift birds soon found the nest of venomous creatures under a small concrete bridge. Each llamhigyn y dwr carried enough poison to kill many humans, and the largest one attempted to sting Trahern before he dispatched them all with a word and burned their remains.

He released the little swallows with a blessing and a quick glance toward a gathering of women playing with their children on the other side of the park. The mortals saw and heard nothing, of course, but the young man who had so easily spied the pwca earlier had made Trahern wary. At least nothing else has wandered here from Tir Hardd this day. But it was only a matter of time. Not only were more faery beings certain to cross to the mortal plane, they would be drawn directly to this place, to the city where Fox lived. There was no denying that his unique and powerful energy had become a magnet for all things nonhuman.

Any other member of the Hunt would have taken the child away by now. So, too, every wielder of magic who had ever instructed Trahern would have elected to spirit the boy from this place immediately. Even Lurien himself had declared that the safety of the Nine Realms must be placed above all. It would have been much simpler to remove Fox. A spell would have rendered Lissy cooperative and trusting. A strong enough spell could even cause her to forget her son completely.

Instead, he’d made a vow to her with his own life as surety, and sealed it with blood.

Sighing, he regarded the dark-blue design on his palm, the twin of the one on Lissy’s shapely hand, and wondered at it. Although important treaties and accords had once been sealed with the adduned gwaed—the blood pledge—as a matter of course, it had fallen out of use among the Tylwyth Teg long before Trahern was born. Even his mother had never utilized such a permanent pact. But then, Eirianwen much preferred to keep both her allies and her enemies guessing. Not only would she not tolerate the slightest risk to herself, but to give so much power to another was completely unthinkable in the Royal Court.

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