Street Fair by Cook Jeffrey & Perkins Katherine

Author:Cook, Jeffrey & Perkins, Katherine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21: Best Seats in the House

“Just another hour?” her mother asked again.

“Just another hour,” Megan assured.

Sheila O'Reilly looked at Cassia. “No alcohol or other drugs, and no … well, no more naked people than Fremont-standard?”

“Not for this next hour,” Cassia assured.

“Okay, that's relatively believable … have we ever actually met, Cassia?”

“I couldn't say,” the satyress who'd been in the Seattle music scene for decades replied with a shrug.

Sheila looked back to Megan. “Lani'll bring you home?”

“Yep.” Megan wasn't sure if she'd felt this nervous between wight expeditions.

Finally, her mother smiled. “Okay. Always good to properly celebrate a record-setting GPA. I'm going to go home and collapse, but I'm going to leave the alarm clock in the hallway set for an hour, okay?”

“Okay. Thanks, Mom!”

The small group set to helping the band, Finn, and the rest of the stage crew in carrying the band's things, before the troll turned his attention to distributing new passes. "Yer all set, have fun!" he called, returning to playing very imposing bouncer at the door while everyone disappeared back into Faerie, and the Goblin Market, one by one.

As much as she was tempted to go through and watch a couple of the performers, or walk down the long stretch of artists one more time, Megan let Lani lead her directly towards the stage. Her father sat on a raised dais in an ornate chair, with the Count on one arm and Ashling on the other exchanging eye-rolls with some of the attending sprites.

The Seelie Queen, with all her alien regality, had her own ornate chair not far away. It took Megan a moment to realize what was out of place there: General Inwar, usually a fixture at Orlaith's side every time she'd seen the Queen, was missing.

Megan settled in next to her father, sitting on the railing of the dais for the time being, to get off her feet. Lani joined her, but Justin, now in full knightly duty mode, stood sentry behind them. The band set up on the ornate stage, which was simultaneously a lot bigger and fancier than the one they had in Fremont, and, to Megan's eyes, so classical in design that it seemed a very odd place for a punk rock band to be setting up. On the other hand, she had to suppose that that was part of the entertainment value to the band themselves.

Megan managed to say a few words to her father, but nothing of consequence, as he was still being regularly distracted by messages from various sprites, and other members of his court. Just as that seemed to be settling down, Inwar entered, moving quickly, flanked by two knights. The General reached the Queen's side, leaned in to whisper something to her—whatever it was was met with a grave nod, but no words from Orlaith—then Inwar took his usual place to the right of her chair. All the while, stage hands of various species dragged what appeared to be white, grey, and black stone debris out onto the stage.

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