Storm Warned (The Grim Series) by Dani Harper

Author:Dani Harper [Harper, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-03-30T23:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Exhausted but joyful, Caris lowered the fiddle at last—and jumped as she heard a sound like tree branches slapping together. Whirling, she saw Ranyon in the bushes at the edge of the woods, rapidly clapping his strange little hands for all he was worth.

“Dear heavens, you startled me!” She realized she had instinctively clasped the fiddle to her breast with both hands, as if to shield it. And that she was far from where she’d started too—her feet had danced her all the way to the head of the tiny stream, where spring water burbled out of the high stone wall of the ridge itself.

The ellyll grinned as she made her way back toward the quilt-covered rock. “And ya surprised me too, good lady. Yer gift fer music is a rare and wondrous treasure.” He hopped onto a log and spread out a cloth of his own. On it was a lovely little feast of bread and cheese and apples, with twin bottles of ale, but though she was hungry, she barely saw it. Instead her gaze was arrested by something that gleamed on top of his bright blue shirt—and as she got closer, she recognized the wide silver collar she’d been forced to wear as a grim. The severed edges of the intricate chain creation were bound together with copper, and broken links hung from it on wires like beads. The entire thing was looped over one of Ranyon’s skinny shoulders and draped across his narrow chest like a bright bandolier.

“Why are you wearing my collar?” she asked, and immediately felt distaste for having called the thing hers. It wasn’t hers at all—she certainly hadn’t wanted it. The collar was as clever and exquisite as only fae craftsmanship could make it, but it was nothing more than a tool to imprison her.

“Why, I’m hiding it, good lady.”

Ranyon grinned at her as he slathered a thick slice of bread with butter, and she couldn’t help but smile just a little.

“’Tis in plain sight, good sir.”

“Ah, but it’s not, dontcha know. As long as I’m wearing it, there isn’t a creature in any realm that can see it or sense it unless I allow them to. ’Twill be safer that way.”

Safer? All the disquiet that had been nagging at her yesterday returned. “Please tell me what’s wrong, Ranyon. I feel that you’re my friend, yet I can also feel there’s a peril here that you haven’t revealed.”

He motioned to her to sit on the log with him. “Eat up. Ya brought me a brammer of a sandwich last night and ’tis my turn to offer a meal.” He waited until she finally nibbled at a piece of cheese, then he nodded. “Aye, there’s more to the truth than what I told ya. The real answer is that we’re in deep troubles, good lady. I didn’t want to cause more concern for Morgan and Jay until I’d thought it through a mite. And I didn’t want to worry ya for something that’s not yer doing.

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