Time Slipping by Elle Casey

Author:Elle Casey [Casey, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Young Adult, Magic, Fairies, Contemporary, Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Adventure, Action, Suspense, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781939455642
Publisher: Elle Casey
Published: 2015-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

WHEN WE WERE DONE LAUGHING at Finn, Ish raised a finger. “I have a suggestion.”

“We’re listening,” Jared said, hands on hips. I admired how he was able to stand there so cool, even while everything was completely and totally messed up around him. Must come from being a few hundred years old. I looked forward to the day I could be that chill, hoping I’d make it that far. Unfortunately it wasn’t looking good for that right now, what with me and all my friends trapped in a realm none of us knew existed before we arrived in it.

“I suggest you come back to my home and have a meal. Perhaps when Othello returns he will have some ideas.”

“Who’s Othello?” Scrum asked. “Did I miss something?”

I held up my dragon scale palm. “Talk to the hand, Scrum.” I snorted at my stupid joke.

“Othello is my dragon-partner,” Ish said, ignoring my interruption. “He and I have been together since I was very young.”

“Y’all have dragon-partners here?” Finn hissed out a long breath. “Great. Another fae I gotta be jealous of.”

Ish’s face went dark. “I am not fae. I have said that already two times. I prefer the fairer sex in my chamber.”

Finn just blinked at him.

I walked over and patted Ish on the shoulder. “We got it. You’re all man. Where we come from, fae doesn’t mean what it means here. It means we’re different. Not like ordinary humans. It has nothing to do with who we have in our bedrooms or whatever.”

He nodded slowly, understanding dawning. “It is true that I am not like ordinary folk. No one from my village is a rider. We are nearly extinct.”

I shrugged. “You’re probably fae. Our kind of fae.” I swept my arm out behind me at my friends. “Most of us were regular old humans up until a year ago. Then Jared found us and helped us figure out who we really were.”

“Who is Jared?” Ish asked, scanning all the faces before him.

Jared raised a hand slightly for a second. “Me. I’m Jared.”

Ish walked over and stopped just in front of him, staring him down, but not in challenge; more with curiosity if I was reading him right. “You see into the souls of others? You are a seer?”

He shook his head. “Not exactly. Probably not in the way you’re thinking.”

Ish looked at all of us. “We have a seer in our village, but he is often wrong. He saw that I would be lost to this world by my twentieth cycle.”

Jared stared at him. “Are you twenty yet?”

“No. But I am a rider, and I have survived many perils. It is not likely I will die with Othello at my side. My cycles will end when my hair begins to gray and old age takes me. Dragons are loyal. More loyal than a human could ever be.” He said the last bit with pride, his chin going up a little.

Jared shrugged. “Hopefully you’re right.” He held out his hand. “Nice to meet you, by the way.

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