Earl and Fairy: Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 5] by Mizue Tani

Author:Mizue Tani
Language: eng
Format: epub

At length, Raven showed in an exhausted Paul. Lydia stood up on his arrival.

“Please accept my apologies, Mr. Firman. After all you did to lend me a hand yesterday, it has done nothing but inconvenience you.”

“No harm came to you, and that is what matters. However, I must confess to my utter bewilderment. His lordship tells me it is fairies who have landed me in this predicament.” Though he was a painter of fairies, he seemed to find it hard to believe that he had actually encountered one.

Edgar offered him a seat, which he accepted. Sitting down again herself, Lydia asked that he show her the ring. It was bound tightly around the middle finger of his right hand. His skin was dyed with paint, and he had callouses from where he held his brushes. It was undoubtedly an artist’s hand and was surprisingly rugged.

“That’s a moonstone,” Edgar said upon seeing the large gem. It was a lustrous milk-white, and beyond its translucent surface, its inner light seemed to take the form of a crescent moon.

“You said that this stone waxes and wanes like the real moon, didn’t you, Marigold?” Lydia asked.

“It does! The light inside it grows and shrinks. It blooms into roundness on the night of the full moon and contracts to a tiny slither when she is barely visible in the sky.” The fairy’s golden wings fluttered, and she corrected herself: “That is because it is the moon.”

Although she was currently in human form, she had forgotten to hide her wings. Neither Edgar nor Paul said anything about it; their focus was solely on the ring. Either they hadn’t noticed or they didn’t feel it important enough to comment on.

“I daresay I could gaze upon this stone every day and never grow tired of it. Some may even think you fortunate for it having come into your possession, Mr. Firman.” Edgar spoke as though he was totally unconcerned.

“I fear that is an overly optimistic opinion, my lord.” Paul sighed.

“Why won’t it come off?” Edgar asked.

“Kelpie used excessive force when he placed it on Mr. Firman’s finger,” Lydia replied. “I believe the ring has warped and is indeed biting into the skin.”

“Kelpie?” The earl blinked.

“I refer to Mr. Kane. He is a kelpie—a water horse.”

Edgar hummed thoughtfully, apparently unfamiliar with such creatures.

“A kelpie?” exclaimed Paul. “The very same fairies that eat people?”

Lydia could forgive him for shrieking.

“A horse that eats people?” Edgar murmured, seemingly unaffected.

“They eat livestock too,” said Lydia, “but they leave the livers on the shore without exception.”

“What a terrible shame that they do not know the exquisite experience that is foie gras.”

“Excuse me, but what am I to do?” Paul jumped in, wary that the conversation was veering from its purpose.

“We ought to start by removing the ring,” Lydia said.

“I have made various attempts to do so, but remain unsuccessful. I have even tried soap and oil.”

“I suppose our only remaining option is to cut it off,” Edgar suggested. “As long as we proceed carefully, your valuable hands won’t come to any harm.

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