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- Author: Aleera Anaya Ceres
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D IRT Y F A E S ECRE T
102 years later…
Dreams of icy waves pulling her to her death kept Iona tossing all
night. Memories of another time. Of war and bloodshed, of the
screaming song of battle and unrelenting pain. Of loss and fallen courts, and
the final battle that pushed her face-first into the vicious hands of an ocean
that would see her dead.
She hadn’t died with the rest of the Resistance in those early years of
the war. Mana had been forgiving, had given her a second chance at life.
A broken, fucked up life.
But life just the same.
One she was determined to live. She’d decided that the moment the
ocean spit her out on the shores of human lands. Grains of sand, ice, and
rock dug into her cold, shivering skin. A cold she’d never felt before
invaded her senses, pressed down deep to her bones, making her teeth
clatter together in hard movements that jarred her skull.
But Iona pushed herself up on her knuckles, to her knees, and finally, to
her feet. Her legs had threatened to buckle beneath her, but she planted her
heels firmly in the ground and looked at her surroundings.
She’d come from courts of saturated skies and sparkling water. Of lush,
vibrant jungles bursting in blooms of exotic colors and scents. Of relentless,
beating arms of the sun enveloping warm skin. Of sea glass protruding from
the shoreline, winking against the rays of light, and of selkies and merfolk
breaching the waves to sing their songs.
Skies in white and gray greeted her when she looked up. Smog
threatened to choke her lungs, laced through the frosty air with flecks of
iron that chipped from surrounding buildings. The waters were black, the
shores gray, and the water tasted like putrid fish against her lips.
She’d always hated fish.
Iona had landed in the kingdom of Teg that day. In the city of Porir just
along the coast, where she’d been ever since. She’d built her life among
humans, rented a cheap room in one of the few wooden buildings left in
Illyk along with other illegal Fae immigrants who hid from the emperor’s
soldiers.
It was in Teg where she dreamt of her death every night. Where
nightmares suffocated her and filled her with images of her family lying in
blood and sand, ash coating their still bodies. Every night her legs tangled
against her old, torn sheet as she struggled to breathe until she realized
where she was.
Tonight was just another one of those nights. Where her nails dug
through the skin at her throat, where her lungs choked on imaginary water
that no longer took up residence in her body. She woke up to tears drying a
sticky pathway down her warm cheeks, her family’s names on her lips,
memories burning like painted photographs behind her eyelids.
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