you’re not concerned?” I kept my eyes on the shooting embers relishing in the fact that he did in fact know something.
“Not as of now, but I will investigate the altercations of the change and how this affects the future. There is an old prophecy of how the summer Firebearer sensed the winter Firebearer and vice versa, but it was hundreds of years ago. If it has happened again, then it could mean grave or great things.”
“And you will tell me if you know anything else.” Could that mean that Kin is a Firebearer ? Devil Grace snapped her detective fingers together and slapped another puzzle piece onto the mystery called my-crazy-life.
He grinned a little, but a frown still drew his eyes closer making him hard to read. “I will tell you what you need to know. To know ones’ future is the most single destructive way of ending your life before you’ve lived it.”
Yeah, because mine is laid out in easygoing intervals. “One more thing. Once, in the garden, I couldn’t smell Ian as quick as I should have. Or Pike. It was like a delay or something.”
“Well, since learning about this particular subject pertains to you alone and no one else, my guess would be that as you adjust to your abilities, that you are shifting your magic a little and displacing it at the same time. Were you perhaps touching your amulet or trying to voodoo something or someone?”
I shied away remembering without fail, “Yes, I was.”
“Figured as much. No worries I think. Only time will see.”
Figured as much? I went back to the range where Ian and Pike were practicing. After a long week of the court on high alert and every noise setting everyone on edge, my two princes of the Seelie court were back in the range. And working together.
The girls and I hadn’t had a book club meeting since losing Lorah and not one of us mentioned it either. Sarah came to my room every morning after my bat having become accustomed to coffee and a biscuit in my bath area. Even Danella and Cyly joined us on the second day helping us to somewhat find laughter in the day.
Danella went back to reminding me daily in our girlish conversations of my virtuous need to remain chaste and ready for the groom. Harrumph!
“Maybe you’ve forgotten what it’s like,” I accused.
“Oh no dear, I remember all too well. If I could return to those days I would. That is why I will remain the “monkey on your back” as you so eloquently would put it. I never forget what it’s like and don’t want to.”
Maybe she was living vicariously through me in some small way, but I couldn’t discount that she had my best interest at heart.
Talking about anything and everything, I was surprised when the conversation came back to Pike. His past. His present. But not his future. We couldn’t predict it yet.
Girlfriends galore. Pike went through a few. When Tren got all flushed, I kind of felt bad for her. He was all kinds of bad news and she was too sweet for what I knew of Pike. I genuinely thought a lot of Pike, but he had a terrible temper and not a romantic bone in his body. Or at least not in the sense that made you giddy, just hot and bothered.
He caught us talking about him at breakfast the next morning. He zeroed in on Tren saying her newest human term I’d repeated from Caylie’s repertoire of sayings. Pike heard it loud and clear. Tren was staring, undressing him with her eyes when she whispered to me, “Heard he’s a Hot Piece of As—“
“Tren!” I popped her little mouth closed. Over the year, Tren had grown taller. She wasn’t quite human height, more like a pixie like teenager.
Pike was chuckling and shaking his head side to side. I disappeared fast and never, ever brought it up again.
Chapter Seven
answers - n. a thing said, written, or done to deal with or as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation.
Ian landed every arrow dead center while I
“Not as of now, but I will investigate the altercations of the change and how this affects the future. There is an old prophecy of how the summer Firebearer sensed the winter Firebearer and vice versa, but it was hundreds of years ago. If it has happened again, then it could mean grave or great things.”
“And you will tell me if you know anything else.” Could that mean that Kin is a Firebearer ? Devil Grace snapped her detective fingers together and slapped another puzzle piece onto the mystery called my-crazy-life.
He grinned a little, but a frown still drew his eyes closer making him hard to read. “I will tell you what you need to know. To know ones’ future is the most single destructive way of ending your life before you’ve lived it.”
Yeah, because mine is laid out in easygoing intervals. “One more thing. Once, in the garden, I couldn’t smell Ian as quick as I should have. Or Pike. It was like a delay or something.”
“Well, since learning about this particular subject pertains to you alone and no one else, my guess would be that as you adjust to your abilities, that you are shifting your magic a little and displacing it at the same time. Were you perhaps touching your amulet or trying to voodoo something or someone?”
I shied away remembering without fail, “Yes, I was.”
“Figured as much. No worries I think. Only time will see.”
Figured as much? I went back to the range where Ian and Pike were practicing. After a long week of the court on high alert and every noise setting everyone on edge, my two princes of the Seelie court were back in the range. And working together.
The girls and I hadn’t had a book club meeting since losing Lorah and not one of us mentioned it either. Sarah came to my room every morning after my bat having become accustomed to coffee and a biscuit in my bath area. Even Danella and Cyly joined us on the second day helping us to somewhat find laughter in the day.
Danella went back to reminding me daily in our girlish conversations of my virtuous need to remain chaste and ready for the groom. Harrumph!
“Maybe you’ve forgotten what it’s like,” I accused.
“Oh no dear, I remember all too well. If I could return to those days I would. That is why I will remain the “monkey on your back” as you so eloquently would put it. I never forget what it’s like and don’t want to.”
Maybe she was living vicariously through me in some small way, but I couldn’t discount that she had my best interest at heart.
Talking about anything and everything, I was surprised when the conversation came back to Pike. His past. His present. But not his future. We couldn’t predict it yet.
Girlfriends galore. Pike went through a few. When Tren got all flushed, I kind of felt bad for her. He was all kinds of bad news and she was too sweet for what I knew of Pike. I genuinely thought a lot of Pike, but he had a terrible temper and not a romantic bone in his body. Or at least not in the sense that made you giddy, just hot and bothered.
He caught us talking about him at breakfast the next morning. He zeroed in on Tren saying her newest human term I’d repeated from Caylie’s repertoire of sayings. Pike heard it loud and clear. Tren was staring, undressing him with her eyes when she whispered to me, “Heard he’s a Hot Piece of As—“
“Tren!” I popped her little mouth closed. Over the year, Tren had grown taller. She wasn’t quite human height, more like a pixie like teenager.
Pike was chuckling and shaking his head side to side. I disappeared fast and never, ever brought it up again.
Chapter Seven
answers - n. a thing said, written, or done to deal with or as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation.
Ian landed every arrow dead center while I
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