Tales of an Outcast Faerie: The Complete Series by Allison Rose

Author:Allison Rose [Rose, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

As Kelty glided down, she commanded roots to spring up from the ground to hold the youth’s legs and feet. Kelty landed softly in a crouch directly in front of her.

The female looked up but didn’t move otherwise. “You should not have come,” she said in a quiet voice. The intelligence in her gaze said she knew what was happening, and she might not be as young as Kelty thought. In fact, up close she looked to be about the same age.

Unease shot through Kelty, but she shoved it down. “Do you wish to be free?”

The surprise in the faerie’s eyes was evident, but Kelty thought she saw a glimmer of hope and hesitation in her expression. It was quickly replaced by one of urgency. “There is no time. Leave.”

So it was a trap from the beginning. But who set it? What kind of trouble am I in?

Kelty ignored her. “Who lurks back there?”

A shadow came over the youth’s face. “No one and everyone.”

A chill settled over Kelty at the words, along with annoyance at the non-answer. I suppose I’ll find out soon enough anyway. The lurking one had Kelty in his trap.

Kelty’s magic swirled uneasily in her core as the air grew thicker with moisture, the smell of rain, and she heard the voice again in her ear. “I knew you would come.”

Her potential. He set the trap.

Go! Find Mother, Kelty mind-spoke to Lakera. The mezra could find her mother faster than anyone else. Kelty only hoped she could hold him off until her mother arrived. Kelty resisted glancing above, hoping that her sister wouldn’t do anything stupid. She regretted letting her come. This potential of hers was too unpredictable and reckless. This was the wrong time for sisterly bonding.

The trees became suddenly restless, warning her the lurker approached. A coolness washed over the far reaches of her magic, about twenty paces away. He strode closer, but at a leisurely pace. Kelty shoved aside her fear as she focused in on the one who could be saved.

Kelty met the youth’s eyes again. “Do you wish to be free?” she repeated urgently in an almost whisper.

The youth was silent for the briefest of moments, her eyes narrowing as Kelty felt the slight prod of spirit magic, the youth assessing whether she told the truth. Then the youth’s expression cleared of suspicion, the magic retreating. She nodded once, whatever her magic sensed convincing her to give Kelty her full trust.

But Kelty had no time to ponder what the youth saw in her.

“Stand,” she ordered the youth in a whisper as she let the vines go.

Once the youth obeyed, Kelty drew her power inward in one fluid motion, gathering it at her core and then sending it down through her feet and into the soil beneath the youth’s feet. There she pictured a seed in her mind, coaxing her power into it. Grow. Roots sprang from the seed and grew. Kelty threw her magic into it then, breath coming a little harder as she urged the tree to develop rapidly.

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