The Throne of Shadows: An Arranged Marriage, Enemies to Lovers, Dark Fantasy Romance (The Shadow Fae Book 1) by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
Published: 2023-05-26T18:30:00+00:00

18

“What is this place?” I murmured, looking around me with wide-eyed wonder. The Mortal Realm was so busy—and so loud! There seemed to be music blaring everywhere and people were shouting and dancing and laughing and drinking. There were glowing signs on the walls that must be magic. One said “Bud Light” and another said, “The King of Beers.” I wondered where this king was and how he proposed to rule over all the malt beverages of the world.

“This is amazing!” I looked around me.

“No, this is just a tavern—a human tavern,” Liath told me, raising his voice a little to make himself heard. “It’s called ‘Harry’s Bar’ in fact—I know the owner. Do you want a drink?”

“Can we look around some first?” I asked.

I was fascinated by the humans. They were almost all dressed in tight blue trousers—even the females. And the few I saw that were not dressed like males were instead wearing incredibly short, tight skirts which seemed barely long enough to cover their crotches. Both modes of dress would have been considered unseemly for a maiden in either the Seelie or the Unseelie Realm, but here they appeared to be normal.

The humans were all dancing and drinking and laughing and none of them seemed to have noticed that Liath and I had appeared out of thin air. Though in their defense, we had come from the darkest corner of the bar.

“Look all you want,” Liath told me. “Don’t worry—humans are mostly harmless. But be careful—you won’t be able to do any magic here because of all the iron they use in their buildings.”

Iron, of course, saps Fae power—be it Seelie or Unseelie. I could feel its presence faintly in the frame of the building around us, but I couldn’t say that it bothered me much. And I could still see the sparks—they came freely from the humans, though they didn’t have any magic. So the sparks must be just positive emotions then, I thought to myself. I wondered if I could use the sparks coming from the patrons of the tavern to do magic the same way I could use Liath’s sparks or the sparks of the other Fae?

“Go on—explore,” Liath urged me. “I’ll keep an eye on you.”

“But…won’t the humans think we’re strange?” I asked uncertainly. After all, we weren’t dressed like them at all and in Liath’s case, he couldn’t be mistaken for human in the least. His huge height, gray skin, bronze eyes, and white hair stood out in the room filled with mortal beings.

But he only laughed.

“Maybe in the past, but the Mortal Realm has changed. You’ll see—you won’t ever have to make an excuse for your appearance—the humans themselves will make excuses for you.”

As he finished speaking, a mortal girl who looked to be around my age walked past us, heading for the back of the bar. She had on tight blue trousers and a short-sleeved shirt made of some soft-looking material. Her clothing emphasized her figure and I saw she was a curvy girl like me.

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