Blinked by Zari Reede

Author:Zari Reede
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, parallel universes, other dimensions, creatures from other dimensions, cyclops and witches, demons and the undead, people disappear in one world and appear in another
Publisher: Black Opal Books

Chapter 36

The Brownie

I would like to say I was nae scared of such a thing as Himself, but my knees right near knocked themselves black and blue, they did. Unceremoniously thrown over a saddle, I hung upside down, because Liotte did not have the ability to transport magically and was reduced to normal means of transportation. I could transport, but only enough to bedevil him. If I took the route to show up just out of his grasp a couple times, he would surely turn me into one of his flesh-eating dead. I must bide my time and save my powers for when they might save me.

I winced as the horse broke into a light trot. The saddle horn dug into my wee ribs, bringing tears to me eyes. The newly-made living dead moved across the valley. Most traveled on foot, except for the few, more sprightly elders whose limbs darted like lightning. They advanced amongst large, black war horses. Withered, dead skin clung to their creaking bones and the green light of their energy source glowed in their eye sockets. This light, their pseudo-soul--so to speak, I had seen before when releasing Princess Rapunzel.

The night of the release, I made meself really small and entered the catacombs beneath Nastere, Liotte’s birth home and estate. The living dead were ominous guards of the crumbling castle. Once it had been a grand fortress, home to the throne of the King of Datters Isle and all provinces known to our people. Before the current king’s great, great grandfather championed the day and freed the people, Liotte’s family ruled. During their reign, the land, tarnished by evil sorcery, was cloaked in darkness. Fear suppressed the inhabitants, but when the crops wilted and famine ensued, the starving people had no choice but to fight for their very lives.

The princesses came from a long line of power. Their many-great-grandda was an unknown farm boy. You see, any man, who stood up to fight something so dreadful, must be blessed with the powers of our great maker.

When the great battle ended, the elaborate stone fortress of Nastere was stripped of its glory and wealth, and Liotte’s grandda and much of the royal family were beheaded. Liotte’s own father died in battle. The former farmer, who inherited the kingdom decided Liotte’s family had suffered enough. As a gesture of kindness, Liotte, who was just a babe at the time, was left to live out his life with his mother and grandmother. A bad decision, ’twas. Himself was poisoned by their sorcery and words of hatred for the new king of Rhineguard. Liotte lived beyond most people’s normal life spans. People forgot battles of such significance over time and most importantly, about the former kingdom’s heir.

When he came for the princess, he spun a glossy that covered his deteriorating flesh, and presented himself as Liotte, a grand master of good incantations and enlightenment for royal youth, born with powers. No one knew of his real identity. Not even me, I’m afraid.

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