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“You haven’t been gone for so long,” he said. “Perhaps you are not as monstrous as these others. You can heal from it.”
“I already did,” she said, looking away from him.
Her pain reverberated through me.
I did not attempt to join the conversation between them, instead I went to her bed.
“What is your name?” I asked.
“Allison,” she replied.
“May I?” I asked, gesturing at her leg.
I felt her honest confirmation even before she nodded. As I reached for her hand and took it between my fingers, the connection between us intensified. She welcomed my intrusion into her mind and body at once.
“Is this your husband?” I asked, trying to keep my tone indifferent but failing as I searched within her body.
My instinct had been right. The bone was too close to a major artery. Any small movement could cause a rupture. She was lucky it hadn’t happened on her way here.
My magic worked before I could assess the situation. First, I pushed the bone away from where it could hurt. The motion did not cause her any pain as I blocked it off while moving the bone.
“Yes,” she replied to my question as I reconnected the muscles around the bone. “He is trying to get used to the idea of having a former monster as a wife.”
The man seemed like he was going to object.
“I am fixing your leg,” I told her. “Is that okay?”
“How can we trust you?” the man asked. “We don’t know you.”
“She’s a healer,” Allison snapped. “She is our leader...”
“Who is this us, you keep talking about?” the man asked angrily before I could object to Allison’s claim about me being their leader.
“Monster folk,” Leof said behind me. “Your wife is one of us.”
“Is that so?” Ilerd asked angrily. “She didn’t... She was only a monster for a month. She...”
“The queen turned you a month ago?” I asked her as I started working on her leg. She had given me permission, I did not care what her husband thought about it. “How did it happen?”
“We lived in a small village, south of Brill,” Allison said. “The queen’s soldiers didn’t come there often, not since the war.”
“The war?” I asked.
“The big war,” she explained. “It was before my time, but my mother always said it was the most horrible thing she had ever lived through. They came and took so many...”
“The double fae?” I asked. “They took the double fae.”
To my surprise, Allison nodded as though it was the most obvious thing.
“Our village is close to the border to the in-between lands,” she explained. “We had trade with...”
“With the dark fae...” the man replied. “That was a mistake.”
I glared at him but did not say anything.
“My father was one,” Allison said, clearly offended that her husband would say something like that. “My mother knew but she didn’t care. She knew their kind from her youth. She didn’t believe the lies told about them. He died before I was born.”
“And once you were born?” I asked. “The queen didn’t get you then?”
