Ever Fade (A Dark Faerie Tale #9) by Alexia Purdy

Author:Alexia Purdy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, young adult, fairy tales, teen, sorcery, faerie, spells, elementals, fey, realms of magic
Publisher: Lyrical Lit. Publishing

Chapter Twenty-One

Dylan

My love….

I woke to darkness, which soon turned into a soft glowing blue as electricity sparked across my skin. I was sleeping on Shade’s old bed, and I could smell her all around me. For a second before I woke, I had felt her lips brush mine as she whispered to me.

But the light emanating from my skin told me otherwise. I lay alone in her bed, which had been moved out of her original room to Anna’s old one. This was Anna’s room, but the bed was all Shade’s.

I sat up, feeling the morning and the Land of Faerie calling to me across the boundaries nearby. Living so close to Faerie had its advantages, at least for elementals. But for a faery who sat just outside their homeland, like me, it was almost torturous. The call to return to its magic ached in my bones like a withdrawal I couldn’t shun. When I’d lived here with Shade without returning to the Teleen Caverns, it had left me morose and broody, missing the magic swirling in the air in Faerie. The human world had its own kind of magic, but it depleted faeries with a ferocity even I couldn’t fight.

I shook my head, rubbing my arms to sling the longing off of me. My body was alert, sensitive to the possibility of Shade nearby. Had she called out to me in my dreams? Had I made it up? I waited to see if her essence would return and seek me out, but nothing happened. I sighed at the silence.

I swung my legs over the edge of the bed and groaned. I didn’t have to rest, but when I did, the sleepiness took a moment to wear off. Yet another quest awaited me. I had to return to the Scren to try the spell in the grimoire Ciaran had given me at the archives, but I first had to find out what was happening to humans in Faerie. Something was poisoning them, and I was sure there had to be casualties all throughout the land. If I was going to figure out what to do, I had to consult the greatest oracle I’d ever met: Ilarial.

Showered and dressed not fifteen minutes later, I headed into the living room and kitchen area to find Benton already awake in the dim light of dawn. He had a cup of coffee steaming in front of him. He drank it black without sugar. He was definitely more hardcore than I was; I loved mine smothered with cream and sugar.

“Good morning,” I said, grabbing a mug from the cabinet before filling it with the hot liquid. As I added my cream and sugar, he muttered a response I couldn’t hear, but I knew he was lost in his own thoughts. What was he thinking? What had bothered him so early in the morning?

I took a seat across from him and sipped my coffee, observing him tentatively.

“Okay, what’s going on?”

“What?” Benton finally broke out of his trance and flicked his gaze toward me.

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