The King of Faerie (Stariel Book 4) by AJ Lancaster

Author:AJ Lancaster [Lancaster, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780473539269
Publisher: Camberion Press
Published: 2021-07-23T18:30:00+00:00

Feathers

To Hetta’s relief, the library also contained bedrooms, presumably for the same non-existent academics who the empty reading room and desks were designed for. It made her extremely curious to know why the High King had built this place and if it had always been so empty.

When she woke, the first thing she did was check the heartstone. Its colour had definitely deepened, now a vivid cornflower blue. The second thing she did was look around for Wyn. She found him draped in a chair on the other side of the room. His wings were relaxed, spread carelessly over the low back, and he was frowning down at the leather-bound book in his hands. A strange, fond feeling curled around her heart. She’d never seen him arranged so artlessly in his fae form; he only went winged when there was some purpose to it.

She studied him, in the moments before he looked up, the man she was trying her hardest to marry. The father of the child she was trying her hardest to keep.

He wasn’t human. He was as fae as this strange place of hushed whispers, as the leviathans in the deep and the dragons in the skies. As the blood butterflies had been. And she loved him.

She reached for Stariel through her ring, felt only a faint, thread-thin acknowledgement in return. How long had they been away, now? She’d lost all sense of time, but she thought it couldn’t have been more than a day or so. Still, it was longer than she’d hoped to be gone.

Wyn looked up and lost all his artlessness with the motion. His wings rose higher, pressing more tightly against his spine, as if that would somehow make them disappear. “How are you feeling?”

She tested her stomach, found it hungry rather than seasick. “Good. Hungry.” At least she’d figured out how to use her thin line of connection with Stariel to settle her nausea. Did that count as making progress with her land-sense?

Wyn produced an apple, putting the book aside to come to her side but retreating again before she could touch him.

“There are kitchens here,” he told her. “And a pantry stocked for an army, with preservation spells enough to make me feel a poor housekeeper by comparison.”

“So at least we won’t be starving to death in our imprisonment.” She eyed the apple suspiciously. “Eating it’s not going to get me stuck here for a hundred years, is it?” she asked, remembering some of the fairy tales she’d heard as a child.

“We are already stuck.” He told her of the exploring he’d done. “Koi has already tried a number of spells to try to break out. Though this is a library, so if the information exists anywhere, it’s probably here.”

“I take it making a second Gate out isn’t as straightforward as I want it to be?”

He shook his head. “The problem is that one needs an anchor, and the anchor for a Gate spell is usually made at the destination and then brought to the origin point.

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