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Chapter1
Ayla
“You can’t kickme out of the public baths for being an earth fae,” I protested, as the guard drove me away from the entrance to said baths with a wickedly-sharp knife to my back.
The guards were always careful not to touch me. If they did, Flood would probably kill them.
But my king—whose real name was Zoran—was way too busy dealing with his pissy kingdom to pay attention to a knife, even if it was against my back.
Of course, if Itoldhim about the weapon being used against me?
There would be bloodshed.
Or drowning, at least.
But I was determined to win over the damned water fae eventually, so I couldn’t tell Flood.
Iwouldstill win them over.
Just not through the public baths, apparently.
I’d have to scratch that possibility off my kingdom-friendshipping plan.
And come up with a better name for said plan.
Yeah… there was a lot to do, and so far, I was failing at most of it. At least I could control my earth magic. That was one thing in my favor, I supposed.
And considering that Zoran’s kingdom seemed hell-bent on keeping us apart as much as possible, I would probably need my earth magic at some point. Maybe just to score myself a ticket into the earth fae kingdom after my plan failed, though.
“I read your laws,” I added, walking faster as the knife jabbed closer to my skin. “Flood gave me the book. I made sure. Nothing in it says that earth fae aren’t allowed in the public baths. I can show you the page about it, and—”
The tip of the knife cut into my back, catching me so off-guard that I stumbled and crashed to my knees. The pain near my spine told me that the stumbling had only buried the weapon’s tip further into my skin, and I fought the hiss of pain that wanted to emerge. It wasn’t a deep cut, but it hurt like a bitch, and would probably bleed a bunch.
I glared at the guard over my shoulder. “Flood is going to kill you.”
He pulled his knife out, looking slightly worried, and I bit my lip hard to stop myself from crying out at the hot pain that accompanied the blood now flowing down my back.
After nearly three months with the water fae, I was on my way to becoming a pro at sign language, but I was absolute shit with the fae. The other lands were welcoming, but this one?
Not so much.
Hell, not atall.
They had been trying to run me out since day one, and nothing I’d done had changed that.
The ground suddenly rumbled beneath my knees, and I frowned as I tapped into my magic.
That rumble definitely hadn’t been because of me. I legitimately wasn’t strong enough to make it happen.
“What the hell?” I whispered, closing my eyes and trying to scope out the land like Quake had taught me. I wasn’t strong enough to see much, though, and couldn’t find the source.
The ground rumbled again, harder—and then a savage, deafening roar filled the air as the shaking grew fiercer.
When the roar ended, the rumbling stopped.
And the fae guard grabbed me by my fiery-red hair. His face was white as he jerked my head backward, holding the knife to my throat. His expression was somewhere between furious and terrified as he snarled into my ear, “You revived Heliai?”
Heliai was a massive sea creature called the Mother of all Monsters, and she was kept asleep in the Aboa.
