Tattoo by Barnes Jennifer Lynn

Author:Barnes, Jennifer Lynn [Barnes, Jennifer Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-04-30T10:16:30+00:00

“Okay,” Zo said as we stepped into the hotel lobby. I could tell by her tone of voice that she was practically rubbing her hands together at the thought of interrogating some fairy worshippers, good cop/bad cop-style. “Who's first?”

“People skills,” Annabelle reminded her cousin. “This is going to take people skills”

“I have people skills,” Zo insisted.

The rest of us remained suspiciously quiet.

“We need to be covert” Annabelle tried a slightly different approach. “And “ She trailed off as Delia approached a woman to our left.

“What can you tell me about Adea and the Sídhe?” Delia demanded. The woman stared at her. Delia spoke again, more slowly this time. “What. Can. You” Delia gestured toward the woman to clarify that last word. “Tell. Me” Another clarifying gesture. “About—”

Annabelle snatched Delia's arm and pulled her aside. “You call that covert?”

“I'd be glad to tell you about Adea,” the woman said.

Delia arched an eyebrow triumphantly at Annabelle.

“Adea is a state of mind,” the woman said. She smiled serenely. “Adea is a philosophy of the heart. Adea is water and earth. Adea is fire and air”

I felt like raising my hand and mentioning the fact that I had personally met Adea, and that she hadn't been particularly watery, or airy, or…

“But the actual personage of Adea,” Annabelle pressed. “Are there stories surrounding her existence?”

“You misunderstand,” the woman said. “Adea is not a person”

“She's Sídhe,” I murmured.

The woman looked at me strangely out of the corner of her eye. I shut my mouth.

“Adea,” the woman said. “A Dawn Ever Always”

“A Dawn Ever Always?” we all repeated.

“The Daughters of Adea believe that a new light is always around the corner,” the woman said. “That there is light in nature, and that we must take our place in the light, give ourselves to—”

“Invigorating,” Zo said. “Excuse us for just one second”

There was no doubt about it. She was a charmer.

“Okay, so how did we miss out on the fact that Adea was an acronym?” Zo voiced the question on everyone's mind.

“A Dawn Ever Always,” Annabelle said incredulously. “That's not even grammatical”

“Call it a guess,” Zo said, “but I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that no one in this entire place has even heard of the Sídhe, let alone knows anything about the Adea that could actually help us”

“You'd be wrong”

I jumped about three feet in the air at the sound of a voice that most definitely wasn't one of the four of us.

“I don't mean to frighten you”

And that, of course, made it all better. I turned around, unsure what exactly to expect.

The woman greeted me with a smile. “I couldn't help but overhear,” she said. “You're looking for information on Adea” She lowered her voice. “And on the others”

“The others?”

“Come,” the woman said. “We'll be more comfortable in my room. We can speak more openly there”

My friends and I glanced at one another. The woman's creepy-serene tone was like something out of a movie, and I couldn't help but think that

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