The Faerie Locket by Susan Morris

Author:Susan Morris [Morris, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7869-5883-2
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2011-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Jade didn’t remember much about how she got out of the castle or how she had gotten so far beyond it into the ancient forest beyond. She had vague memories of getting Davin back to his tree, and she knew the shimmerling had wandered off at some point, but aside from that …

She just couldn’t get the image of Frost out of her head—his blue eyes hard as ice, that awful wand blazing with winter magic, him defending his mother despite everything. The scene kept replaying in her head as she turned the locket over and over again, trying to find the hidden catch that would let its secrets loose.

But the locket, and the scene, remained cold, smooth, and closed to her. So she drifted deeper into the woods, still turning the locket and the scene, until all around her were trees with black bark and long, dripping beards of tangled green moss. The canopy was thick enough to block out the sun, and the only light came from phosphorescent green mushrooms that grew like pimples on the faces of some of the younger trees.

Everything made sense, almost. Frost and Phoenix wanted their parents to stop fighting, so they stole their magic. But everything went terribly wrong when Phoenix confronted the Ice Queen alone and ended up frozen. And then the Sun King, powerless and upset, went to the glaistig for help. She gave him a locket that could only be wielded by a human—the locket she had gotten from Phoenix—and a prophecy that the human who wore the locket was destined to end the war, bringing in someone else as though he didn’t think his son could handle it. And that had to have hurt Frost’s ego.

She didn’t believe the Sun Prince for a minute when he said he hadn’t been able to tell her about this at the party because there were so many other faeries around. Frost had wanted her to butt out. He was upset that the Sun King had brought her in when he had Frost, and worried she would figure out that he had stolen the troves, getting him in trouble, opening the troves, and getting one of his parents hurt before he could figure out how to fix it. He probably thought that now that she had rejected his offer to work with him that she’d run straight to his father and tell him about the troves. And why shouldn’t she? The Ice Queen was evil. Jade could tell that even if the Sun Prince couldn’t.

But that brought up another problem: how exactly was she supposed go about telling the Sun King about his son, anyway? She could imagine, vividly, exactly how that conversation would go. After all, why would the Sun King—or anyone in the Forever Court, really—believe her, a stranger and a pixie, over the Sun Prince, particularly without proof? Frost could just move the troves before they had a chance to raid his room, and then she would look stupid in front of the whole Forever Court.

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