The Changeling's Journey by Spoors Christine

Author:Spoors, Christine [Spoors, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

The journey didn’t take as long as I expected and by around mid-afternoon, we were following a road into the town. The castle was built in front of huge mountains, which made the Fairy Hills look miniscule. Their peaks were snow-capped, and the contrast between the harsh black rock and bright green grass was striking.

Somehow it made sense that even the mountains in the fairy kingdoms would look more menacing.

Spread out on either side of the castle was the town. The town was comprised of stone cottages, not dissimilar to the one we had just escaped, and had a market near its centre. We watched fairies going about their daily lives, working in the market, riding in and out of the town on horses and most importantly, heading into the castle.

At the entrance of the castle there was an arched doorway, through which people could wander freely as the large wooden doors were throw open. Glen and I decided that the best place for us to try and find answers would be in the castle.

Even if we didn’t get a chance to speak to anyone, we could hopefully observe them and try to learn about what they did with the babies they stole.

Too nervous to waste any time, we passed through the markets without so much as a glance at the goods and headed for entrance.

No one gave us any strange looks as we headed in, which meant that seeing humans must not have been unusual. It made me wonder if they all had humans enchanted in their homes.

The courtyard we ended up in was magnificent. It was larger than my cottage back home and, although it was simply paved with stones, it was grander than any human built building I had ever seen. The courtyard had many doors, leading off in all directions, which made our plan to charge in and find answers suddenly seem foolish.

We had no idea where to go.

Everyone around us was hurrying off without a moment’s hesitation, allowing us no time to stop and think about where we wanted go. Not unless we wanted to attract attention. Glen pointed towards the first door to our left and so we headed through that.

It made sense not to go charging into the centre of the castle, just in case we needed to escape. Although, I highly doubted that two humans could outrun a whole town filled with fairies. We would be found in minutes, especially if the stories about fairies and their magical powers were to be believed.

The door we passed through led us to a set of stone steps. We crept down as quietly as we could, half expecting to hear the footsteps of malicious fairy guards chasing after us at any moment. We made it down the steps without hassle and found ourselves in a large storeroom filled with sacks, which I assumed must have been food stores

“Och, you scared the life out of me!” a girl shrieked behind us, causing us both to jump out of our skins.

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