A Bargain for Bliss: A Cozy Lesbian Romance in the Palace (Raven Court Chronicles Book 2) by Wolff Autumn

Author:Wolff, Autumn [Wolff, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Autumn Wolff
Published: 2023-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Walking into a dimly lit basement, I looked down at the cracked concrete floor. The room smelled of old drainage and expired cleaning products. I turned around to see the mirror I’d just crawled out of and caught sight of the Intrinsic Pathways chamber fading back into my reflection.

A simple white plastic border surrounded the glass surface. The thing was barely big enough for me to fit through. Barsilla didn’t have any trouble, though — the benefit of being a piskie and only a few inches tall.

She darted up to my shoulder and hid herself in my hair.

“I’m glad you’ve been growing your hair out,” she said.

A moment later, the piskie stuck her head out of my hair and added, “And I’m also glad you switched to the pineapple and raspberry shampoo.”

I rolled my eyes. Today I was playing carriage to the queen’s left-hand lady in the human world. And I could already tell it was going to be a test of my nerves. I’d never spent an extended time with Barsilla before, primarily because she was a bit scolding and judgmental.

But today came with an important mission before we left for Kilgara tomorrow. We needed to make contact with a powerful fae that lived in the human world.

“How can a fae live in the human world full-time? Wouldn’t that be a death sentence with all the iron and the lack of glamour?” I’d asked my queen.

“You’ll see,” was all she said before sending me here to accompany Barsilla. And by accompany, she meant carry.

The piskie looked around the little room we’d appeared in. It was a small space with concrete walls and floors. A shelf of cleaning suppliesstood against one wall, along with a mop and a janitor’s cart on wheels.

“Where are we?” I asked.

A grimy voice from the ceiling made me jump. I looked around to find the source.

“You’re in the basement of Ssorc Insurance Arena,” a masculine-presenting fae said. When I finally found him, my eyes widened.

In one of the ceiling corners hung a spider-like faery about a foot tall. When I got a closer look, I saw he had the body of a tiny man but also a thorax and four narrow legs behind him that clung to the wall.

His front arms were crossed as he looked down at us. Eight brown and black eyes spread across his forehead kept a close watch on us.

“Hello there,” he said, waving a tiny hand. “Name’s Jello. Welcome to Portland.”

I raised a finger and opened my mouth to speak.

“Because he likes to eat Jell-O,” Barsilla said from inside my hair.

I lowered my finger and closed my mouth, nodding. That made plenty of sense. Maybe I could change my name to Chicken Nugget.

“You’re not going to come out and say hello to your old friend, Barsilla?” Jello called with a grin, revealing two fangs and additional mandibles.

Her voice called out from in my hair.

“I’m quite good here, thanks.”

I raised an eyebrow. Barsilla sounded a little scared, which was a first for me.

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