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“And fire,” Arran said.
Taliya nodded. “It is not as effective, but yes.”
I met the faerie’s blue eyes, suddenly mere inches from my own. “Why are you telling us all of this? You could leave us to our deaths.” I paused. “Unless you want our help.”
Her eyes flickered. “We do not need your help. Our males wear amorite amulets. They are protected from invasion by the succubus.”
“Perfect. Amorite necklaces for everyone.”
But Arran was shaking his head. “Amorite is rare. There are a few mines in the terrestrial kingdom, but not enough. Not for every fae, or every human.”
He looked at me, waiting for me to say it.
Fuck the humans.
But the words didn’t come. I returned Excalibur to its sheath down my spine, the knife to my scabbard.
Arran’s fingertips brushed the shell of my ear. The amorite studs that reached from the soft rounded lobe up to the sharply pointed tip.
You’re getting a piercing tonight.
His beast didn’t even bother to growl back at me.
“We will only stay long enough for Lyrena to recover. We are bound for Avalon,” I said, my eyes never leaving his.
Taliya was shuffling or flapping nearby. “We will take you back above when the threat of the succubus has passed.”
Which meant we might be here forever.
But that wasn’t what she meant. She thought we’d led them here, that horde that had driven us underground. Maybe we had.
Even with everything Taliya had told us, everything I’d pieced together, we still knew precious little about the succubus.
Taliya was clever, even if she was shit at managing her emotions.
When the threat of the succubus has passed.
She meant that we would leave when she allowed it.
I wasn’t going to argue with her about it—not yet.
But no one would keep me from Avalon, not now. We needed answers. My kingdom needed answers.
“We’ll lodge with the others,” I said, finding the blue female hovering near the door we’d come through minutes or hours before.
“I am certain Isolde is waiting to speak with you.” Contempt—Taliya didn’t think much of the other female.
Another bit of information to dissect—later.
The door opened, sounds floating in from the atrium. Before I ducked through it, I looked up at Taliya one last time.
Her face was unreadable. Not because she was able to dissemble—but because there were so many conflicting emotions at play.
I felt a flash of sympathy.
“Why only males?” I asked.
A few quick flaps of her shimmering blue wings. “Because the succubus are all female.”
