Cast in Godfire: The Mage Craft Series by Reine SM

Author:Reine, SM
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Published: 2017-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

16

The moon was exchanging positions with the sun when Konig returned to the Wilds. In the waxing daylight, the hole in the Veil separating unseelie territory from seelie was much more visible; a rippling sphere stretched from the horizon toward the clouds. On the other side of that hole, the forest shifted from one of blades and ice into emerald green. But even those leaves were beginning to yellow. Konig’s army had been in the Summer Court for weeks, and his influence pressed heavily against them.

Marion was waiting for him when he approached with Heather pressed to his side. “My king.” Marion gave a shallow curtsy to Konig without meeting his eyes. Her behavior and dress was so inoffensive for once that it took him a moment to realize that Marion was there at all.

She’d prepared for the big moment in the way Konig would have wanted her to. In addition to leather gauntlets, she wore the armor that he’d commissioned for her—a few revealing scraps of chainmail enchanted to protect what it didn’t cover. She was drenched in enough magic that she looked sidhe. She was even radiating light from her back, as though she had wings.

Even now, Konig could acknowledge that she looked the part of his queen.

He let go of Heather’s hand and said, “You’re late.”

“I needed to clear my desk of distractions, so to speak.” Marion’s eyes were lowered to the smooth stone beneath their feet. Her thick eyelashes looked like lace fluttering atop her cheekbones.

She had no clue what had happened while she was gone. Rage’s death, the shift in power, Jaycee Hardwick’s escape—it had all escaped Marion while she was “clearing her desk” and doing her hair. Must have been nice.

“I didn’t ask why you were late, and I don’t care,” Konig said. He extended his free hand toward Marion. “It’s time.”

He raised his voice for those last words, signaling his people to bring a sedan chair through the trees. It was an elaborate construction of magicked wood and silk, like a portable throne. Konig lifted himself onto it via magic. There were only two chairs. Konig sat in one, and Heather had no choice but to take the other when he pushed her into it.

How would it look to others, the two of them seated while Marion stood beside them?

Konig didn’t care.

His fingernails ached. He’d dug them into the wood of the sedan chair too hard.

“Out of the way,” Konig said to the knights.

They took their hands off of the sedan chair, and he lifted it on a sheet of cold, billowing fog. It would hold them over the center of the army, giving them the best view of their kingdom as they entered with the final wave of the invasion. And it meant that any seelie who’d survived would be forced to look up and see their rightful king.

Sun spread over the Autumn Court with warm fingers.

“Let’s move,” Konig said.

The army began to march. The chair swayed into motion.

He turned a victorious grin on Heather, which she didn’t return.

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