creepy hollow 05 - a faeries curse by morgan rachel

Author:morgan, rachel [morgan, rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

NINETEEN

Elizabeth clearly doesn’t trust me to stay in my bedroom all night, so she conjures up a magical, glowing string, ties our wrists together, and falls asleep beside me. When I wake in the morning, she’s gone.

I spend the first part of the day with Gaius looking through the costume closet and choosing outfits for everyone. He and Ana will be posing as the baron and his daughter Brynn. If all goes according to plan, they’re the only two who will be seen tonight. Lumethon and Elizabeth will be beneath the palace floors, searching for Chase and keeping out of sight. But if someone does happen to see any of them, they need to be dressed appropriately so they can pretend to be nosey partygoers who wanted to explore the palace and ended up getting lost. Kobe and Darius, who will also be searching for Chase, will be dressed as palace guards. They can pretend to usher the tipsy ladies back upstairs if need be. Gaius and I alter two Guild uniforms—I don’t ask where he got them from—by changing the color to midnight blue and adding the Seelie Queen’s insignia to the top of each arm, using my projection of the guard I saw the other night as a reference.

I’m the only one who doesn’t have to wear party clothes. I’ll be hiding outside the ballroom, staying in constant contact with the team, manipulating illusions, and essentially playing the puppet-master. My clothing will be as dark and inconspicuous as the shadows I intend to hide in.

We lay out all the formal wear and masks on the meeting room table as the rest of the team begins to arrive. Lumethon, whom I cannot imagine in a dress, picks the least frivolous garment, lengthens it with a simple clothes casting spell, and passes Darius and Kobe their guard uniforms. Gaius, already dressed, makes adjustments to his mask.

“If that’s what royals have to wear,” Darius says, eying Gaius’s outfit, “then I’m happy to be one of the common folk.”

“Ha!” Ana says as she walks in. “You’d be common even if you were royal.”

“It’s traditional faerie formal wear,” Gaius explains to Darius. “Haven’t I ever sent you to a formal event for one of our missions?”

“Nope. You always make Kobe go to those things.”

“I don’t mind,” Kobe says with a shrug.

“No way,” Ana exclaims as Lumethon hands her a purple gown. “You want me to wear this?”

“Now who’s the common one?” Darius whispers loudly into her ear before leaving the room with his uniform.

“Do I have to wear this ridiculous thing?” Ana moans. She turns to me. “Can’t I wear something normal and then you just imagine this puffy dress on me?”

“I think we should leave her here,” Elizabeth says. I glance over my shoulder and find her leaning against the wall fixing Ana with a less-than-impressed stare. Her glittering red dress is her own. Nothing out of the costume closet for her.

“I’m not going to spend the entire evening picturing your dress for you,” I tell Ana.

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