A Stargazy Night Sky by Laura Briggs

Author:Laura Briggs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cornwall, cornish romance, feel good romance, cornish fiction, cornwall romance, cornish series
Publisher: Laura Briggs

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The longer they talked, the longer they were spared from facing the fairies' decree. Janet knew his mind must have found the same place to hide as her own.

"What will they do to you if you don't obey them?" She couldn't help her bitterness. "If you won't —" She left it unfinished.

He made no reply at first. "I'll tell you, if that's what you want," he said. "If you feel you have to know. But it's better not to. If I'm to face it, I'd rather it be something you knew nothing about." He fought something within. It brought the blanch of pain to his face.

She should listen and obey that request. With just a little time and silence, she knew that he would spare her everything. It would almost seem as if there was no punishment at all for her mistake.

Her tongue dragged itself against leaden fear. "Tell me," she said. "I have to know." Her tongue tried to hold back those words but failed.

It was a long silence which followed. Then he did as she asked, with words that seemed pulled from his chest. She understood why before he finished. It was nothing any human should ever know of, much less endure. There would be no survival, and death would be welcome long before it came.

Regret mounted. Knowing this, she couldn't go through with begging him to save her. She could tell that he had hidden part of the truth from her, even though he spoke of it in a distant way, as if they were not talking of his fate. In these many hours, she knew him well enough to sense a lie from him already.

My word processor jumped a few pages as I read, with my brain fast forwarding through the various scenes of my latest chapter. Tam attempting to smuggle Janet to escape through a secret path. The misty bog where the fairies trapped Janet in a marsh pit and threatened to drown her until Tam surrendered to their power. The verdict of the fairy queen's minister delivered in the Midnight Court of the Moon.

"I would still take the price on myself." Tam's voice rattled with fury and helplessness. "But I can't bear what they'll do to you. I can't bear that price — all because you took a desperate chance that anybody would —"

She shut her ears. The cold decree from the queen's court rang out in her memory once more, where it echoed through her head every few seconds. Cruel, he had called them before, when she hadn't fully believed him. But that sentence was crueler than anything she had expected.

If it has to be done ..." he drew another breath, harshly, "If they have to have a price from you ... I would be gentler than them." His voice filled with disgust for this truth. She knew it was disgust for himself, for what he was as the fairies' slave.

She wanted to hide her ears. She remembered his words from before: "They can be kind when they want to be, sometimes.

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