A Cats Guide to Dreaming of Fairies Dragoncat, #7 by Chris Behrsin

Author:Chris Behrsin
Format: epub

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MEET THE GODDESS

It didn’t take long for me to see again, but I was not in the Faerie Realm.

The same woman I’d encountered in the incredibly brief vision – the glowing giant beautiful woman – stood before us. I walked up to her so I could at least sniff her feet, which didn’t smell like feet at all. Rather, they smelled fresh, like an abundant waterfall, like a clearing storm, like the moment the smell of grass is washed away by dew.

We had left the water, and now stood at her feet on an island of the same fine and shining sand as we’d seen in the Faerie Realm. A cratered mountain rose behind the giant woman, green at its bottom and dark at its top. It disappeared into a thin layer of fluffy clouds, above which spanned a rich and vivid sky limned with the shades of amber that come just after sunset.

Everything here seemed so soft – the light, the texture of the swishing sea that licked the sand, and the gaze of this woman, despite her enormous size.

Esme, Seramina, Max, and I had all been brought here. I could have sworn it was just a dream, but somehow it felt as if we were sharing the same dream together. Was that even possible? I did know that when I’d first met Seramina, she had somehow visited my dreams.

My friends seemed to still be adjusting to our new environment, so I decided to address the woman first.

“Who the whiskers are you?” I asked.

She lowered her head slowly, and her gaze followed it. Every single movement of hers seemed to be so gentle. This woman hadn’t been born to frighten.

“You have met other immortals throughout the realms, I believe,” she said.

Like my crystal, she spoke in a gently lilting Welsh accent. Except her voice was much smoother, and it not only seemed to come out of her lips but also to roll off the water. Esme came up to sit next to me. She looked up at the woman and I detected a whiff of fear from her.

“Be careful what you say, Ben. Because not all immortals are as kind as they appear …”

I looked at Esme, admittedly a little startled. I mean, we cats have something in our genes that tells us whom to trust and whom not to trust when we first meet them. Still, patience isn’t carved into our genetic makeup, and I really hate it when someone doesn’t get right to the point.

“So, who are you exactly?” I asked.

“She’s beautiful,” Max panted. “She’s beautiful. Can she be my new master?”

“Shut up, Max,” I barked in the dog language, and then I jumped as Esme barked it at the same time.

I often forgot that Max didn’t speak the human language. But if this giant woman was anything like Bastet, then she’d be able to speak all our languages at once.

“Look, great giant woman person with shiny skin,” I said. “We have a world to save, and all you immortals seem to be so slow to get anything done.

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