Fledgling by Nicole Conway

Author:Nicole Conway [Conway, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: children's fantasy, sword and sorcery, magic, dragons, science fiction and fantasy
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC
Published: 2014-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

I was officially on my own.

Felix and Sile both left right after another maid came in with two trunks full of Beckah’s stuff. Sile only gave me a few instructions before he rushed out the door: no leaving the room, no breaking anything, and Beckah had to be in bed in three hours. Now I was standing before a girl who still didn’t look convinced that I could be trusted, even though Sile had assured her I was harmless. She looked at me warily, like she might run if I made one wrong move.

I wasn’t sure what to say. She was definitely older than my sisters, but still younger than I was. I had no idea what girls her age liked to do. Well, other than torture me occasionally.

“Um, so your name is Beckah?” I asked her. Since I was small for my age, I was just about looking at her eye-to-eye.

She just blinked and didn’t say anything. I could see traces of Sile in her expressions, especially when she frowned at me. He definitely had to claim her as his child.

“I’m Jae,” I told her.

She was beginning to hedge a few steps closer. I noticed how her eyes were quick, and darted over me curiously. You could just tell by the way she was examining me that she was smart, probably a lot smarter than I was.

“Daddy won’t let me go to the party with him,” she said at last. “He says it’s for adults only, but you were going to get to go.”

“Well, not really,” I explained. “I was going to have to work. You know, serve food and open doors. Not exactly much fun. Maybe it’ll be more fun to just stay here, after all. They left plenty of food in here.”

I saw her smile for a moment, just a little bit. It was like watching a star shine out from behind a veil of clouds. I knew Sile would beat me within an inch of my life for thinking it, but I couldn’t help but notice that she was really pretty. There was something earthy about the mixture of her green eyes, dark hair, and the freckles sprinkled over her nose. Something about her, for whatever reason, reminded me of my mother. Maybe it was that curious twinkle in her eyes.

“You’re half elf, aren’t you?” she asked me suddenly.

I felt my heart twist in my chest so hard it hurt. This was the moment I’d been dreading, because pretty much everyone felt the same way about halfbreeds like me. I just nodded and braced myself, fully expecting her to give me a look of disgust.

Suddenly her smile came back, spreading over her face and making her cheeks get rosy. “That’s what daddy told me. He said your momma was a gray elf.” She sounded curious. She started coming closer to me, and I was immediately on red alert. I stiffened, staring at her uncomfortably as she looked me over from head to toe. “What was she like? I’ve never met a gray elf before.

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