Stars Descend (A Game of Stars and Shadows Book 1) by Kara Jaynes

Author:Kara Jaynes [Jaynes, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-29T05:00:00+00:00

18

Eldaren

I don’t sleep much anymore. Not since Stella has entered my life. She is all I can think about. When I do manage to drift off, she invades my dreams, like a sylph riding on the wind. Entrancing and elusive.

Stella is no sprite. Not in the literal sense. I would have sensed her magic if that were so. She is skilled at evasion, however. She is sneaky and not to be trusted. Yet.

I love that about her. I shouldn’t, but I do. I love everything about Stella.

The trick is getting her to feel the same way about me. When the Kenelky sparks between two elves, there is no arguing about it. They are mates for life, and that is that.

I don’t know what to do about her refusal to cooperate. Perhaps I don’t need to do anything. That she's agreed to be courted for a year exceeds my expectations. Maybe the Kenelky just takes longer for humans.

When dawn turns the sky from black into a dull gray, I rise. There is no use trying to sleep when it's not to be found. A book on human courtship lays next to me. I'd dozed off reading it for the past few nights. Humans are strange and unpredictable, and this book proves it.

I dress and begin to go through a stack of reports at my desk by the window. I should be more formal and do my work in the makeshift throne room created for me in this hurriedly constructed fortress, but I like being close to Stella.

The reports are good, so far. My men are continuing to test the air for quality. It's improved slightly with the trees being planted in the city, but still not great. Combine that with the humidity from our proximity to the sea, and it makes for miserable conditions for those humans here who already have respiratory problems. My thoughts go to the elemental-touched humans we've found. Over the past five years, we've found a total of fifty humans who wield magic of various sorts. More recently, we've discovered two humans with uniquely strong magic. One wields water, and the other, the green-gift, as she called it. Both will be useful in our work, but what I really need is a sylph, human or no. True sylphs are ethereal beings of the sky, and would be tremendously useful in purifying the air. They are extremely rare. So rare, they may be extinct, as I haven't found one yet. I'd settle for a human with sylph blood, as fae and humans used to mingle, centuries ago, but I haven't discovered one of those, either.

I cup my chin in palm and look out the window. The humans are already stressed beyond measure at the prospect of elves existing.

What would they do if they knew the truth? The whole truth?

The creatures from myths and legends are real. This earth is a lot busier than humans realize. Faeries, trolls, hidden folk, and ogres all exist, as well as other mythical creatures.

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