Eira: A Snow Queen Retelling by Smith Adrian J

Author:Smith, Adrian J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

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As the sun crested the mountain range, Gwyn made a decision. Kay was right. She did have to stop being afraid of her own shadow. Her powers weren’t completely under her control, but it was far better that evening than it had been in the morning.

With a frustrated sigh, Gwyn stepped out of her hut and into the cold air. A gentle frost covered the ground, which was partly her fault and partly not. She had heard the search crews throughout the night, including Kay’s voice as she called Melissa’s name. Each time someone had come near enough her hut, fear had clenched at her heart.

The easiest way out of the situation was to find the missing woman so they would stop looking around her home. But she knew her conversation with Kay wasn’t over. She knew Kay would want to figure out what she was doing up there, hiding from the world. Gwyn left her hut behind as she walked quietly through the forest.

The other advantage of going out to help in the search would be to dispel the rumors of her being a ghost. As much as that had afforded her freedom in the past, she had been sighted so many times in the past month it was becoming difficult to feel freedom from it. If she could convince them she was a real person, then others wouldn’t come searching for her as Kay had several times.

If they thought she was a normal thirty-something-year-old woman, they would leave her alone—hopefully. All she had to do was convince them that she was there to help, that she wasn’t ghost, and maybe they would once again leave her hut alone. She still would have to move, but she hoped it would give her enough time to work through the anxiety of formulating the best plan.

Hiding was a skill, one she had not come by easily. Being raised in a palace where everyone knew who she was no matter where she went or what she did, she’d never known what it felt like to be unknown, to be the mysterious woman, until she was well into her seventies, until a whole generation of people had died.

There was a reason she was afraid, and she hadn’t been able to tell Kay what that was. Kay didn’t know anything about who she was, about what she was capable of. Just about every person she met who did find out the truth tried to kill her. Rarely, there were one or two who sought to help her, and she typically ended up killing them accidentally in the process of trying to break the curse.

Someone would die, no matter which path she chose. It would either be her, or it would be whoever helped her. But the memories of the mobs coming after her in the dark of the night had flashed through her mind and fear had gripped her chest the night before as Kay had pounded on her door. If Kay hadn’t said who she was, Gwyn wasn’t sure what she would have done.

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