The Faerie Wand (Dark World: The Faerie Games Book 4) by Michelle Madow

Author:Michelle Madow [Madow, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing
Published: 2020-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

30

Selena

Five days.

That was how long Julian and I had been trudging through Hypernia’s frozen wasteland.

The only signs of life were the evergreen trees dusted with snow. Other than that, there was nothing.

As promised, our pack had been waiting for us when we’d returned from the Underworld. Another pack was there, too. It was full of gear to survive in the tundra—proper clothing, an insulated tent, snow boots, and more.

The gear helped, but no one was meant to survive out there. Especially not fae. It was freezing, I was miserable, and I hated this. Julian was toughing it out without complaint, but his wings were dimming slightly every day. I assumed mine were, too.

We were shivering so much that it was impossible to have a conversation as we walked through the rolling, snow-covered hills. To make it worse, our compass had frozen, so we had to travel at night to follow the North Star and sleep during the day. The cold wiped so much energy out of us that we fell asleep the moment we got inside the sleeping roll.

The aurora shined brighter and brighter the farther north we traveled. And the brighter the aurora shined, the more my hope grew that we’d reach our destination soon.

The first glow of dawn appeared in the east, which meant it was time to search for a spot to set up camp.

“How many more days can this possibly take?” I asked Julian.

“I don’t know,” he said, like always.

He didn’t know how big Hypernia was, since it wasn’t on any of the few maps he’d seen of the Otherworld. Everyone simply knew there was nothing there. Hypernia could be five times the size as the rest of the Otherworld, for all we knew.

It better not be. I couldn’t keep this up for much longer.

We reached the top of a hill, and I stopped to look out at the endless white expanse. Then, something tiny, cold, and wet landed on the tip of my nose. Another fell on my cheek, and then two more.

Snow.

Flakes of it drifted down from the sky, transforming the tundra into a place out of a fairytale.

I tilted my head back and smiled. “It’s beautiful,” I said, and then I stuck out my tongue to try catching some of the snow.

“Have you never seen snow fall before?” Julian asked.

“I lived on a tropical island and wasn’t allowed to leave,” I said. “Of course I haven’t seen snow fall. Until now, obviously.”

He watched me in amazement.

“What?” I asked.

“Nothing,” he said, but then he reconsidered. “You just look so happy. It’s the first time I’ve seen you smile since we got back from the Underworld.”

“You haven’t exactly been Mr. Smiley yourself,” I said.

“Can you blame me?” he asked. “I’ve been your verbal punching bag about how much you hate the cold from the moment we crossed into Hypernia.”

“Because I do hate the cold,” I said, gazing back out at the flakes of snow blanketing the trees and frozen hills. “But this is wonderful.”

“It is,” he agreed.

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