The Fae Souls Books 1-3 by Francis Cailee

Author:Francis, Cailee. [Francis, Cailee.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

5

Sapphires and Rubies

Screams tore through the night air as the shield above us glowed an angry orange-red. Ordinarily you wouldn’t have known the shield was there at all. It had become more obvious when it was attacked, and then when it had yellowed from the dark tendrils of magic and flame. Now its state had worsened and I feared it might not hold. Its red glow leant the night a surreal quality, as though we stood in the light of a massive bonfire or the world had been painted in bloodied hues. I saw attack after attack pound against the embattled shield, and I willed it to hold. For the moment it did, and I stood in readiness, in case it became immediately necessary to draw my sword. I was surrounded by a small crowd of guards and armed fae outside the Insley mansion, keeping watch on the shield and our surroundings. Sorcha waited inside for the moment with many others, who didn’t deserve what was out there beyond the shield any more than we did. I could understand the reasons for the unseelie’s anger, especially in light of the fact they’d lost two thirds of their people during their successful escape. I still felt the peril we were placed in wasn’t justified – at least for us, but I could see why they viewed those on the island or among the numbers of the seelie as enemies. I knew enough about their history to understand that this wasn’t the first war to take place between the seelie and unseelie. The unseelie had also proven themselves a threat to humans in the mortal world. According to the history books, they’d created chaos, disorder, devastation, and they had killed mercilessly in their time. It was why I hadn’t questioned our faction’s motivations for exiling them, but it seemed they were angry and vengeful. They were out for blood and unfortunately, it was ours. The ground trembled, as if from an earthquake or a terrible explosion in the distance. There was no corresponding flash of fire or darkness upon the shield surface that I saw, though tendrils streaked its surface in silhouette like black climbing ivy. I glanced away – I can’t recall why, and then I heard gasps of dismay. I turned to see where one woman, named Lucinda, was pointing and soon I understood why. It was a sight that changed everything and besieged my heart with fear. I saw that hairline cracks were forming in the shield surface. At first they seemed thin and hardly noticeable at all, but then they deepened and widened across the dark red expanse of the shield. Somehow I knew that was it – game over, and the shield would soon fall. I obviously wasn’t the only one who drew this conclusion. Several fae took this as reason to run back into the mansion, but out of fear or a desire to carry the news to the King and Queen, I could not say.

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