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…though something told me I’d be getting a lecture about my safety after I figured out the magic.
“You were created to protect the fae and creatures of Vevol,” I called out to the beasts, tapping into the magic beating inside me. I didn’t know why, but something told me that they were waiting for a purpose. That they knew they’d been created for something, but were lost as to what that something was.
I felt their souls settle, as that information sank in.
“Vevol is under attack,” I said, raising my voice again when I felt sure they understood the first part. “There are creatures coming this way without our land’s magic in their veins. We need you to protect our people. To defend them, and our land. Can you help us?” I asked them.
Their response was a roar; a unanimous answer.
This was what they’d been created for.
This was why they existed.
They would fight our battles at our side—and we would win.
I slipped back onto Teris’s back, and when he streaked into the trees, the bears followed at his heels.
“Sorry if I scared you,”I murmured to the man, as I dug my hands into his fur.
“I’m never going to be comfortable with you putting yourself in danger,”he grumbled at me.“But I understand why you did. They seemed receptive to what you said, too.”
“Yeah. They were waiting for me to tell them why they existed. Now that they know, I don’t think they need a leader at all.”
“Still trying to be free of your title?”Teris drawled.
My lips curved upward.“Nah. You’ll never let me be free of it.”
He chuckled.“Nope. You’ll always be the queen to me.”
“I would look pretty damn good with a crown.”
“Without a doubt.”He turned his head to the side just long enough to lick my knee, making me laugh. The wind whipped the sound away, but the happiness I felt was overwhelmingly blissful.
The sky wasfull of fae by the time we reached the battle.
Female fae fought aside males—some in beast form fighting with fire and talons, and some with their nails shifted to claws as they threw themselves at the creatures in the sky and ripped into them on their way to the ground.
The klynnas were absolute beasts, burning and destroying hoards of the invaders at a time. But there were so damn many of them—and they just kept coming.
The bears threw themselves into the fight, and had no problems or fear when it came to launching themselves from the branches, catching the creatures by the ribs, legs, or throat, and dragging them to the ground. Since Vevol had created them to protect us, I assumed they couldn’t be poisoned by the creatures’ blood.
When I looked down, I saw another battle on the ground—the army of smaller, crueller-looking hellhounds, fighting the fae without wings who weren’t on the backs of the flying fae.
“I’m going to drop you somewhere safe,”Teris growled into my mind.
My stomach clenched.
I wanted to help, somehow, but I wasn’t a fighter. I’d only be one more body for Teris to worry about. Even if I remained on his back, there was a risk I’d get hurt, in which case he’d lose his ever-loving mind and drop out of the fight.
So as much as it pained me, I agreed.
He dropped me off in a safe crook between a few tree branches, and then disappeared into the forest, joining the fight.
“Talk to me when you need to,”he rumbled to me, before he focused on the fight.
I clutched the tree like it was an anchor, and prayed to whatever gods still existed in our world that Teris would be okay.
Sixteen
