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“She is a queen, elven.”
“And I was going to call her the mortal queen.” For a moment, there was the slightest flicker of annoyance on the woman’s face.
Ah, she could feel.
“This current is too strong, yes? It keeps your queen’s mother out of your world.”
“Yes.” I thrummed in irritation, as though my old resentments toward the earth fae needed someone new to burden.
Trust was a fickle thing, and I’d not given it freely to her yet. Until then, she’d likely receive the sharper edges.
“I could take it away.”
I froze. “What did you say?”
“I could take the current away, leave a calm barrier between your kingdoms.”
“How can you take the Chasm?”
“Much the same as I took your bond.”
“I would not speak so flippantly about the bond you stole.”
The elven shrugged. “All I am saying is the act is the same without the pain. The boundary between realms will remain, but the violence that fractures your two worlds is powered by something Otherworldly. It was obvious when we sailed through.”
What fueled the crushing waters of the Chasm had never been taught to me, simply known to exist. Trade between sea and earth fae had been done before, but it was rare and used spells and summons to see it done.
Sea fae always went to the earth fae. Never—that I knew—had earth fae sailed to the Ever since the Chasm was shaped.
“A sea witch likely created the barrier,” I determined, more to myself than Skadi. If sea folk cast the violence, it would make a bit more sense why earth folk never came to us.
“Perhaps,” she said. “It matters little, but there is a power teeming within, and that is what I can take.”
“The boundary would remain,” I repeated.
“But the violence would be finished.”
No Chasm? A wall between worlds that had been in place for centuries.
“Explain your magic, elven.”
“Affinity,” she corrected. “Like Arion used flame or light to reach for and take objects, I do the same with darkness.”
“He walked through his.”
“A talent I do not possess.” Skadi tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. “Arion can walk through light, within reason. He cannot step long distances, nor can he go somewhere he has never been before. He must see it in his mind’s eye.”
Gods, I wished that bastard was dead. “Livia said you conjure things from these mists.”
“Not conjure. I take.” Skadi studied the rafters overhead. “When I summon my affinity, I could pull that drinking horn, for example”—she gestured to a far table—“into the mist until it reached my hand.”
That was how she’d robbed Sander of his blade.
“You can’t simply take a current like the Chasm and place it somewhere else.”
“No, the power within it would fade into the mist, die in a way. I can draw matter to me, or I can leave it within the darkness. It is the drearier side, or in your case—helpful.”
“Leave them where?”
