Winter King by Juliana Haygert

Author:Juliana Haygert [Haygert, Juliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Amber

After my successful batches of hazelnut chocolate brownie, I had been welcomed at the kitchen. In the last two days, I had been there three times. By now, the staff of the palace all waited with bated breath for my next dish, even when it was something as simple as French toast or a cheese omelet.

But I didn’t want to spend my afternoons solely at the kitchen, so I had my guards show me the library.

When I first stepped foot inside the library, I thought I had found paradise. It was an enormous room with triple ceiling height, long and narrow windows, too many shelves, and even more books. In the middle, there were two long, white tables with many comfortable armchairs, and two white velvet couches.

My first time there, I went around checking out what kinds of books a fae library could hold. I was amused to find some classics from the human world, like books by Tolstoy, Jane Austen, and even J.R.R. Tolkien. There were encyclopedias and books about bigger countries, like the United States, Russia, and Australia, all showing maps, relating facts about culture, and telling a little about the history.

Then there were the fae books. There was a fiction section and a nonfiction. It seemed they wrote fiction books just like humans. There were romance, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, suspense, thriller, and horror. And the nonfiction were about their magic, their history, their culture, and more.

Since I didn’t know much about their world, I started with those. I picked a few books about Wyth’s history and sat down on the couch, where I started skimming through them all.

In the few hours I spent here every day, I skimmed through at least a dozen books and learned a lot of things. I saw a map of Wyth with the eight courts, a small inaccessible area in the center called Niwtrall, Tywyll Forest at the south, and the unnamed desert island to the north. Wyth was several thousands of years old, and the continent’s land was supposedly alive and magical. Niwtrall was actually some kind of core, from where all the magic in Wyth came, turning that small piece of land into the most powerful being in all Wyth.

I learned that Mahaera, the fae who conducted my cleansing rituals, was a goddess and that she had two sisters, Mahaere and Mahaeru, each one with a different personality. They had been here since the beginning of the world, but no one knew exactly how they had come to be and what exactly they did for the world, other than show up and help here and there. Another interesting fact about them was that even though there were three of them, nobody had ever seen them together.

I read about higher and lesser fae, terms I had heard before from Cade and the others but felt bad about asking, as if it was a personal question they didn’t want to answer. Higher fae were royals and nobles, fae who came from stronger families and thus had more magic.

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