The Court of Outcasts by Allison Rose

Author:Allison Rose [Rose, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allison Rose Creations
Published: 2020-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

After a rather tense end to dinner—Nola was too sick to her stomach to eat anything, or even ask what the strange-looking vegetables were—Allora dismissed the humans, who walked up the stairs and disappeared into separate rooms. Allora showed Nola and Briar to another door close to the room where they had spoken to her only a few hours earlier.

Nola gripped Briar’s arm, fearing Allora would try to separate them, but she merely gestured to the room and walked away, a satisfied look on her face.

She is so sure we won’t try to leave…and she is right. I wouldn’t want my friends or the others to suffer any more for something I did.

Briar let her walk into the room first. Nola briefly took in the simple twin bed with a wooden bed frame, one wooden chair, and something that looked like an old-fashioned trunk, before turning to face Briar. “How do we get out of here?”

Briar let out a sigh. “I cannot tell you that,” he answered wearily. “Did you do something to Cameron back there?”

“Uh, I’m not sure. I tried.”

There was a beat of silence as he stared at her.

“What happened between you and Fable?” Nola pressed on, lowering herself to sit on the edge of the bed. Fable had to be the key to getting out. “Why did Allora say you had fallen out of favor? Did he find out the real reason you got Kelty banished?”

Briar’s lip twitched a little at that. “No. He was actually rather impressed with that stunt. He fears no one and so relishes a challenge.” He paused and looked out the window as he continued. “I was angry about the…dead faerie that your father found. Fable has erased things, little things, here and there throughout our lives. Sometimes I don’t think he even knows he does it. But nothing that ever involved the death of another—at least not anything I remembered. Things like that leave a strong impression and are the hardest to erase, sometimes leaving a lingering feeling, or disjointed pieces of thoughts. I told him I was going to walk away from him forever. It was too dangerous to be around him with my memories of you easily within reach.”

Nola tried to digest this information. “He let you walk away…just like that?”

Briar turned his gaze back to her. “He made a promise to my mother that if I told him to leave me alone, he would. I hadn’t asked until now.”

“And he listens to your mother?” Nola asked in disbelief.

“She took him in after his family perished in the Silver Dusk. She’s probably the only one he has ever looked up to.”

She must be one special faerie. Nola wanted to ask more, but the urgency of their situation nagged at her. “So what do you think he is doing with the humans?”

“I imagine he is trying to figure them out. Improve them in some way.”

“By bringing them to a place where they will die if not protected?”

“I didn’t say it made sense,” Briar pointed out.

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