The Golden Ball (Tales from the Kingdoms of Fable Book 2) by Erika Everest

Author:Erika Everest [Everest, Erika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781913972011
Publisher: Eddally Publishing
Published: 2020-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

12

“And after all that I still don't have the ball back,” Asha huffed to Sienna that night. She paced around Sienna’s room in Dreamworld, to agitated to sit still.

“Why are you letting him push you around like this?” Sienna asked delicately.

“I don't have a choice!” Asha replied hotly. “Without that ball there's no way I can get Odette the help she needs.”

“Of course you have a choice!” Sienna persisted. “You are playing the servant role entirely too realistically, Ash. You’re forgetting how truly powerful you are. You could turn him to ice if you wanted to!”

“I can't do that!”

“Why not? I’ve seen you freeze a man in his tracks before.”

“That was different,” Asha protested, looking away. “That was a situation of extreme duress. You know I can't control my powers. Besides, if I used ice magic there would be no hiding my involvement. The whole point of disguising myself is to keep Siverus’ neutrality intact.”

“So, the only reason you are prolonging this charade is to protect your kingdom’s reputation?” Sienna asked skeptically.

“Of course!”

“I’m not buying it. Toadious is bullying you, but you are not a powerless victim to his whims. You don’t even seem threatened by him. If anything, you seem to regard him as an annoyingly persistent but otherwise harmless suitor.” Asha scoffed but Sienna pushed on. “You may not have control over your powers, but they respond whenever you feel overwhelmed. Have you ever felt your fingers tingle with unbidden magic when you’ve been with Toadious?”

The question surprised Asha; the answer even more so. She recalled all her interactions with Toadious; her magic had not risen in any of them. But maybe her magic just didn’t respond that way. It wasn’t like she understood it. “No, but…”

“What about when that Chastain fellow propositioned you?”

The remembered fear was enough to cause ice to coat her fingers. She clenched her fists to douse the reaction. Sienna looked at them pointedly.

“So, your magic pulses when you are angry or scared, but has never surfaced with Tobias? I think you like him.”

“What? No! Why would you even say such a thing?”

“For the first time you are not Natashya and you don't have her constraints. But you still have her upbringing and can't quite permit yourself to let this man court you. By allowing him to take the choice from you, you don't have to acknowledge that you like him.”

“I don't like him! We are talking about the man who cursed Odette and is performing a stealthy coup as we speak.” Asha’s stomach roiled at the idea. Even if she and Odette were fighting at present, she could never betray her friend that way. “How could I like someone like that? How could you even suggest it?”

“I'm sorry, Ash, I didn't mean to upset you. Clearly, I misread the situation.” Sienna waited and after a beat of silence, Asha nodded to accept her apology. “So, what are you going to do now?”

“Get the ball back. Tomorrow, I will hunt him down and demand he return it and I won't budge until I get what I want.

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