Frotwoot's Faerie Tales (Book Three by Charlie Ward

Author:Charlie Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA fantasy, funny fantasy, trilogies
Publisher: Charlie Ward
Published: 2020-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

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Elizora (or her magically-projected image, at least) just sat there with her hand over her eyes for a long time, before slowly sliding it down to half-cover her mouth instead and say, “A ‘live stream’?”

“Yep,” said Frotwoot, sitting across from her in the camper/illusory cave. “Well, I mean... that’s what I meant to do, but I guess I was just recording. Clod showed me all the best places to send the video out to to make it go viral, though.”

“Did he?” Elizora gave Clod a look that made him shrink like a child facing a grounding. “And what, pray tell, was in this ‘viral video’ that you meant to be a ‘live stream’?”

“I already told you,” the girthy warlock chimed in. “He—“

“I want to hear it from him, thank you.”

Frotwoot held out his hands. “What? No, it was good. I didn’t say anything that might blow back on us, like that I’m a fairy, or that I’m working with the warlocks. I just said that I was the Archmage’s secret grandson, and that I was pretty sure he and the sorcerers were trying to stop me from getting the staff.”

“You said one more thing, though, didn’t you?” said the bathtub witch—though she seemed more amused than horrified (unlike everyone else).

“Um... what? You mean the thing about how I was only doing all this to stop the war? Yeah, I thought that’d go over better with the slave owners than the other, realer reason I’m doing it, but if you guys don’t think that was a good idea, or whatever, then—”

“No, not that! The other thing!”

“ ‘The other’—? Oh, yeah, right! I also told them where the next trial was and that they could come watch me do it.”

Elizora didn’t even have to say anything to that. The look on her face said it all.

“I think it’s rather clever, actually,” said the bathtub witch, turning to the other warlocks to talk about him as if he weren’t there. “What Frotwoot’s done here is made it much more difficult for Dryadia to move against him. If word should get out that the Archmage is violating his own grandson’s mage-given rights—”

“Then Dryadia will have no more than a week of bad P.R. and Frotwoot, for his part, will still be dead,” Elizora cut in, sharper than a knife. “Oh, yes. How terribly clever.”

“Yeah, but no, you see, that’s the thing,” said Frotwoot defensively. “The ‘bad P.R.’ he’d get is that he was afraid of me; that he actually thought I was more powerful than him, and had to stop me. There’s no way the tree guy would let something like that happen. I know it doesn’t make sense, but it’s just the way he is. Trust me, I know.”

“ ‘Trust’ you. Hmm. Remind me again, dear, how many times have you allowed this wizard that you claim to know so very well to betray you?”

“Just two! I knew he would the second time, though, just nobody would listen to me.”

“It’s true, I wouldn’t,” said Pixley.

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