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“Hey, now,” came a voice I hadn’t heard in a long time. “Easy with the grabby hands! Is that any way to greet your aunt?”
“Gullie?!”
“Hey, kiddo.”
“Gullie!”
A little green-haired Pixie shot out of my hair and held her place in front of my face, hovering in the air on her pearlescent, semi-translucent butterfly wings. She placed a hand on her hip and angled her head to the side. “So? What’s a princess like you doing in a dump like this?”
CHAPTERFOURTEEN
Gullie’s small, shimmering form radiated green light from a distance. It wasn’t until she got close enough to you that you could see her features, and while a soft halo of green remained, it wasn’t so overpowering that you couldn’t look at her directly. She held her form in the air with those butterfly wings of hers and looked at me with big, inquisitive eyes.
“I wouldn’t call this place a dump,” I said, “It’s charming.”
“I was only messing,” she said, smiling brightly. “My Gods how you’ve grown… you get bigger every time I see you.”
One of my eyebrows climbed, all by itself. “Bigger?”
“You know what I mean. Stronger. Leaner. It’s all that training you’re doing, isn’t it?”
“I think the word you’re looking for is escaping, and my parents hate it.”
“I mean, I guess I know a little bit about that.”
“A little?”
“Oh, your mother likes to check in with me pretty much daily, so, I have an idea how things are going. If I also had to hazard a guess, she doesn’t know you’re in our company?”
“No…”
Gullie tapped the side of her nose. “I won’t tell her,” she said.
I breathed a sigh of relief. “Thank you, Gullie.”
“You don’t have to thank me. I’m thecoolaunt. How lame would I be if I ratted you out?”
“Pretty lame… almost as lame as calling yourself my cool aunt,” I added, a slight grin curling the corners of my mouth.
The little Pixie frowned. “Well, if I’m not your cool aunt, then I don’t really have a reason not to call your mother right now and let her know where you are? She’s probably worried sick.”
“No, no, no. Please don’t do that,” I begged. “She probably already knows where I am. I’d be surprised if she hasn’t sent half the kingdom to retrieve me already.”
“I wouldn’t be either. She’s pretty extra like that.”
“Extra?”
“Yeah… it’s a word from Earth.”
“I know what it is… I’m just surprised you know it.”
Gullie gave me a sly smile. “Cool aunt,remember?”
I rolled my eyes. “Unbelievable,” I said, shaking my head. “Hey, where’s Melina? Is she around?”
“Unfortunately, no, my lovely wife is out on patrol at the edge of the forest. She should be back tomorrow morning if you want to have breakfast with us?”
“Yeah… I think I’d really like that. It’ll take my mind off… everything.”
