Dark Fae's Rise: Vampire Masters of Italy #2: A Dark Haven Paranormal Fantasy Romance by Ava Ward

Author:Ava Ward [Ward, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ava Ward (Jean Lowe Carlson LLC)
Published: 2021-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16 – TIME

From the trattoria, Ariana and Lucca went to a wineshop, then on to a Fae chocolatier, tasting delicacies and chatting with proprietors. Florence was beautiful as they wandered through the midday, the scents of a thousand flowers heavy in the hot summer air, every shaded arbor cool with granite benches and ornate stone fountains. The piazze were busy with eateries, shops, and music just like in the human world, though musicians wielded strange instruments and jugglers did feats of magic. Ariana lost track of time until she found them back at a stone bridge spanning the Arno River.

Leaning out over the railing as they watched the sun set beyond the colorful rooftops of the city.

“God, this place is so beautiful.” Ariana breathed as she watched wrought-iron lampposts of saffron-gold Fae magic light all down the avenue. Butterfly and dragonfly-wing buttresses of the city’s more opulent buildings caught the last of the sun’s rays, glowing as the rest of the city settled into blue shadows. Down both sides of the river, shops and eateries were casting on lights now, everything acquiring an almost Mardi Gras appeal as establishments were lit by different colors of magic.

As Ariana watched, she saw lights flicker on around ornate shop-doors that led down to beautiful underground catacombs; with a macabre elegance, haunting blue and dark purple magics joined the brighter colors of the Fae – the city’s Vampire eateries and boutiques opening for the night.

As Ariana’s breath caught, she noted Vampires dressed in modern couture emerge from basement apartments to go about their evening. As an Italian Vampire couple wandered by, both dressed in runway-chic Armani, they glanced curiously at the Summer Fae Prince and raised their eyebrows at Ariana. But they were soon past, as Ariana stared after them.

Amazed at the sudden change in the shared Vampire-Fae city as the Night overtook the Light.

“Beautiful, isn’t it? I never tire of the changeover here from Light to Night.” Lucca spoke softly now as he stared out over the water, watching the lights come on and the Vampires come out. “For thousands of years, Fae, Dark Fae, and Vampires have shared this city, along with other Lineages. What you see now is a divide between the Life of the Light and the Life of the Night. But once, it was not so.”

“They don’t mingle.” Ariana noted as she watched a Vampire couple give a Fae couple a wide, respectful berth as they passed on the sidewalk. The Fae weren’t entirely gone from the streets, bright lights to their darker Vampire shadows as the two Lineages walked side-by-side.

But Ariana saw how careful both were to not interact, as if apartheid divided the city.

“By my father’s edicts, no.” Lucca sighed as he watched, tension knitting his brow. “Summer Fae are forbidden to consort with Vampires on pain of death – both the Fae who consorted and the Vampire they consorted with. We live together in the city, especially at night, but it is a tense association these past six hundred years.

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