Fae Isles 1 - Court of Blood and Bindings by Marshall Lisette

Author:Marshall, Lisette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Grammar, it turned out, was an exhausting topic. Hours of untangling complex verbal formations and ridiculous Faerie word orders left me a yawning mess before we had even cooked dinner; I barely even had the time to think about piles of corpses through the knots the language left in my brain. I spent most of the evening lying flat on the couch and staring at the small lights strewn across the ceiling, unable to stop wrestling words into sentences in my mind.

So, Creon’s note said, landing folded into a kite shape on my stomach. Looking forward to the nominal declinations?

I didn’t even know what a declination was supposed to be; I supposed the answer would be negative. ‘Can’t we take a break tomorrow?’

From behind me came the sound of parchment torn from a notebook. The next note followed a moment later, sailing against my thigh. Considering that he was sitting at the table, a good twenty feet away, he was throwing them with unsettling accuracy. Already discouraged?

‘I take back everything I said,’ I told the ceiling. ‘I actually do hate you. With a passion.’

No answer followed this time, so I sat up with exaggerated groaning and glared at him. He sat with his arms folded on the edge of the table, eyeing me like a cat might eye a mouse that’s just out of his reach – looking amused, and yet it was not only amusement burning in those ink-black eyes.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word passion.

‘Let’s take a look at the Labyrinth tomorrow,’ I said.

He moved to sign an answer, then paused halfway through the first word – realising, presumably, that I wouldn’t be too happy about his intended reply. The revised version came a moment later.

If you’re sure, at least get some sleep.

‘Is it that dangerous?’

Potentially.

Potentially. If someone found us there. If Creon saw himself forced to remove that unlucky witness from the face of the earth, or worse, if someone tried to do the same to us. For a moment, I wanted to give in and just let him go by himself – but no, I’d have to face the danger anyway in the end. Better get used to the place before the fate of the archipelago depended on it.

‘Fine,’ I said. ‘I’ll go to sleep.’

I contemplated putting a pillow between his and my half of the bed, just to make sure I couldn’t make last night’s mistake again. I wasn’t sure I would survive another morning waking up in his arms. But if I suddenly resorted to pillows after a week, that might tell him exactly what I didn’t want him to know, and I had been lucky enough already that he’d still been asleep this morning.

So I just settled myself beneath the blankets on the far side of the bed and hoped for the best. ‘Night, Creon.’

His note hit my shoulder a little too hard. Night.

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