The Passionate Queen (Dark Queens Book 2) by Jovee Winters

Author:Jovee Winters [Winters, Jovee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Jovee Winters Publishing
Published: 2015-08-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Aphrodite

Calypso and I munched on a bowl of popcorn seasoned with sea kelp, salt, and cowfish butter; it was fishy but yummy. I licked my buttery fingers.

“So, what do you think?”

I bobbed along the ocean current. Normally, visiting Calypso’s sprawling temple in the below was calm waters, but the elemental goddess was excited and giddy, and her waters reflected it.

Today she was purely in her elemental form, with parts of the ocean waters being her gown, little fish and colorful eels wrapped around her naughty bits, and her greenish hair flowed in long dangling sea kelp strands.

Being around Caly always forced me to step up my game; she was ethereally beautiful and made even this diva sometimes feel a little underwhelming. So today I’d come to her dressed in spools of wispy clouds; there was a foggy transparency to my gown that shimmered with pinpricks of starlight when I moved. I was lovely to gaze upon, but there was just one problem with my choice of clothing. It was light. Meaning, I had nothing to weigh me down; as a result, I was constantly fighting to stay still, which was a near impossibility in the riptides swirling all around us.

I found myself turning a bit green around the gills. We’d been sitting on her massive clam-tongue bed, watching the glowing see-orb (basically a giant bubble of water magically attuned to the above) that Caly used almost like a TV so that she could keep her eye on the goings on at Zelena’s castle.

Groaning, I clutched at my stomach, wondering if I was about to lose all the popcorn I’d just been munching on for the past several hours.

Frowning, Caly studied me with her strange clear-blue eyes. “You look like a green salamander, Dite.”

“Your waters are rough today.” I said it slowly and kindly, always wise to not get snappy with water; she was prone to wild bouts of temper when she felt threatened. Caly and I were good friends (and I doubted very much she’d drown me at this point in our lives), but I always kept things polite. I’d never forget how she’d nearly brought Olympus to ruins with but a mere snap of her dainty fingers.

“Oh.” Her eyes widened in shock, and the kelp braid of her “hair” bobbed as she commanded, “Waters be still.”

Immediately all movement ceased. Even the cute little guppies of her gown stopped swimming.

Giving her a grateful grin, I sighed with relief.

“Well, it’s going okay, I guess,” Caly said, answering my question from earlier with a flick of her wrist. “I can see where your speaking with fire butt—”

Caly’s cute way of referencing Ragoth.

“—definitely helped him to get his head screwed on right, but Zelena needs a stern talking to.”

I sighed. “My dear, you cannot rush love. I cannot force this match.”

Grumping, Caly shoveled a palmfull of popcorn in her mouth and munched on it like a masticating cow. “I don’t see why not.”

A crumb of corn slipped from her hand; one of the eels in her gown poked its golden-veined head out to snap it up.

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