Farzana's Spite by Felix Graves

Author:Felix Graves [Graves, Felix]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Felix Graves

WHEN MORNING CAME, Farzana told Laraf she felt sick and needed some alone time. Laraf gave her a hug before leaving to spend the day in the kitchens with Enzi, giving Farzana the solitude she so desperately needed.

It hadn’t been a lie; the knowledge that there was an innocent creature trapped upstairs had her stomach in knots. It also made her head spin. How could entire other populated worlds exist? Worlds she had never heard of, with creatures, sentient beings? In school, they were taught about how the planet had split into two—Earth and Faerth—long ago, trapping the faeries on one and humans on the other. The split had been studied and no one as yet had come up with a reason for it.

Of course, interplanetary travel had been made possible over a millennium ago, though off-world teleportation had only existed for the last few centuries. Faeries frequently visited Earth for vacation, but just because they knew how to travel between the two didn’t make the mystery of the split any easier to approach.

But to learn that there were multiple inhabited planets aside from those two? There could be millions and billions of other beings out there, living their mundane lives, and faeries were none the wiser. How had Erasto found out? Was it common knowledge on Earth that there were other worlds?

And Ettares! Ready and willing to capture that bright and dragging it from its home planet, handing it over to Erasto to be used for his twisted ends. What kind of faerie did it take to not only ignore the harm there but instigate more? Working with Erasto to manipulate Farzana seemed like nothing compared to this. Araj had warned her about Ettares but obviously she had failed to fully grasp the actual magnitude of peril that followed Ettares. Weren’t bounty hunters just supposed to stalk faeries, not hurt them?

The fact that it had been so easy for Farzana to fall for Ettares’s charms should have spoken to the level of expertise and depravity that the noble wielded, and yet… After Ettares was exposed, after the sting of betrayal colored their brief friendship, it had been hard to reconcile the gentle, caring, passionate noble with whoever had been paid by Erasto. To be revisited by her, to be told that something was wrong, that Erasto was wrong and that Ettares needed help against him… She had looked so scared and earnest. That speech about Farzana being the only faerie who could save everyone—to save her—that had to mean something. If it was fake, if it was just a load of shit, then what was Farzana risking herself for? What was worth the possibility of reigniting Erasto’s wrath?

None of it made sense.

The air muddied around her as she twisted her fingers between each other, her nails scraping across her palms. The painful vibrations of it should have helped her focus, but the sheer number of unknowable variables overwhelmed everything else. Her eyes bounced around the room, seeking an anchor. They landed on the desk.

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