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The vines trapped a few warriors, wrapping around their legs, and dragging them away. As soon as the warriors cut off the assaulting vines, new vines gripped them.
“Protect the queen!” Zembyr snarled as he fought toward me, slicing the plants with all his might.
The vines clasped the warriors’ faces and tried to puncture their armor. The warriors cursed profusely as the ivy turned their faces into patches of rashes.
Rosalinda bent her head and yelped as a branch wrapped around her ponytail. Blaze opened his mouth, ready to spit fire to help her.
“No, no! No fire. My hair!” Rosalinda cried in panic.
And I’d thought a fierce warrior such as her was above being vain.
Henry bit into the vine connected to her hair and freed Rosalinda. My hellhound had a lot of experience with nasty plants.
“Good beast!” Rosalinda praised him, and when the next vines came for my hellhound in revenge, Rosalinda returned the favor.
Sybil swooped between the trees, chirping, calling a warning or two and constantly giving instructions. For some reasons the ivy left Sybil alone, and Henry gave Sybil an evil eye.
Iokul growled as several vines worked together from the ground and air and tied around his midriff.
No matter how angry the forest was, the plants didn’t dare attack me.
I stomped on the forest floor and hissed. “Enough!”
The power from my Fae side that I’d once used to bond the beasts on Pandemonium to me rolled off me with a punishing force, a violent wind with teeth and claws slammed into the badly behaved ivy.
My bonding magic could also chastise and bind all subjects to my will. Though I wouldn’t use it unless it was necessary—I didn’t believe in slavery.
“When you go to the fairy land, your Fae powers will awake and enhance,”Elvey had told me.
Sihde was sick and twisted now, but it was still my land and my realm.
“Stop!” I commanded, and the ivy vines retreated as one, mortified at my harsh reproach.
We weren’t like this, the multiple voices whimpered in protest.
“Who are you?” I asked, my voice filled with authority.
We’re the guardians of the Forbidden Forest.Some call us the forest spirits. The forest was beautiful once, though also lethal.
I’d stripped the glamour the evil queen had cast upon it.
Had Tianna glamoured the Forbidden Forest, so her court wouldn’t know she’d made the realm ill? Why had she poisoned Sihde as the current sovereign?
“I didn’t expect it to be so bad,” Rosalinda said, wiping at the tears falling from her eyes. “That bitch destroyed our home.”
My mates shifted back to their human forms and gathered around me.
Everyone had rashes on their skin, except me.
The dark queen ordered us to attack, one of the spirits’ voices rose again,but since you’re here now, she’s no longer our queen.
We’ve come to warn you,another spirit said.
Then the third voice murmured, We waited and waited for you to come home to heal us, but you never came.
Somehow, I could differentiate between the voices.
It’s been so long, our queen,the first spirit’s voice started again.
