When Magic Falls by Tera Lynn Childs

Author:Tera Lynn Childs [Childs, Tera Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9861623-2-9
Publisher: Tera Lynn Childs
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“That’s a lot of effort to bring his friend back from the dead,” Mel said.

If something bad happened to Winnie, Mel knew she would do almost anything to save her. But that almost made definite exceptions for murder and the destruction of entire realms. There were limits.

“Daegus is not dead, precisely,” Liam clarified. “He is…well, the best description is that he faces perpetual torment.”

Mel turned to gaze out over the land. “Sounds like he deserved it.”

Liam fell silent and she took the opportunity to take in the view. Even in the dim light of the night sky, she could see the lush green forest that surrounded the palace. How on earth she gotten there? She knew the particulars, obviously, but this place felt so far from the crappy little trailer she called home that it might as well have been in a different universe altogether.

Considering she was in the fae realm, that might actually be true.

Her father was a fae god. How was that even possible? How could the deadbeat no-show she always not-so-secretly loathed be an actual magical being?

Hating her errant father was one of the few constants in Mel’s life. Her relationship with her mother was…complicated. And her relationships with the stepdads of the week were nonexistent. Hating her dad and her friendship with Winnie were the two constants.

And now, both of those had changed.

“What does it mean?” she asked, her unfocused gaze still pointed at the forest.

“What does what mean?”

“Being the daughter of a god,” she explained. “Does that make me a freak?”

She turned when she sensed him hesitate. His brows furrowed together into a deep line just above the bridge of his too-straight nose.

“I am not certain,” he finally said.

“Not the answer I was looking for.”

The strange look in his gray eyes set the hair on the back of her neck on end.

“I am not certain,” he explained, “because I do not know what it means.”

“Why not?”

“Because I believe you are the first.”

Mel backed away from the wall. “The first what?”

“Child of a god.”

Mel’s jaw dropped. “You can’t be serious.”

“To my knowledge, there have been no children of the gods for millennia. Not since they first coupled with humans to create our race, long before written human history. They deemed their elemental magic far too powerful for mere humans to possess.”

Mel’s palms itched. “Sounds…dangerous.”

“You are likely more powerful than any fae in many generations.”

So many questions raced through her mind. What kind of power? What could she do? If she had so much magic running through her veins, why hadn’t she ever done any?

“How do I do it?” she finally asked. “How do I do magic?”

“We do not do magic,” he said softly. “We wield. Magic is not an action. Magic is a resource.”

“Okay,” she said, somewhat irritated by the correction. “How do I wield magic?”

“It is difficult to explain.”

She crossed her arms over her chest. “Try.”

He studied her for several long moments. Mel had the feeling he was trying to read her mind. Or maybe he was just mentally preparing himself for her training.

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