Born of Starlight by Mariet Kay EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Mariet Kay
- Language: English
- Genre: Fairy Tale Fantasy
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Fenris
A doe was grazing in a clearing of tall grass. The night fog of the
northern woodland tangled around the animal’s hooves.
The docile animal didn’t know it was being hunted. I watched the
deer through Vangard’s eyes as it stood calm against a backdrop of cricket
song and pine trees. But judging by the angle, Vangard was lowered onto
his canine-like haunches in the thick of the treeline. The deer had only
moments before it would be wrenched from tranquility and shredded to
pieces.
“Leave it,” I commanded quietly through the bond.
Vangard growled in protest, and the deer’s head shot up. With a quirk of
an ear, it fled.
I returned to my own vision in time to see Van run across the clearing to
my side. He let out a deflated grunt as I patted his shoulder. With only half
of my power, it was sometimes hard to reel him back to me, as his will grew
stronger by the year.
Van made horrible company—endlessly blood hungry and always
thinking about food above all else as though he was deprived. But Van was
company nonetheless.
“Oh, come on…I let you eat the rabbits back at the creek. That’s
plenty.” I waved him away.
When we had lived amongst those in the courts, they had always been
cautiously intrigued by our connection. I wasn’t the beast, and he wasn’t I,
and yet in some ways, I would always be the beast. I shook that confusing
thought from my mind, motioning to the field before us.
“Go and run—you’re supposed to be stretching your legs.”
Van gave me a whale-eyed sigh but soon bounded away to pounce and
run around the clearing, snapping at lightning bugs and looking like a
puppy out of his cage. A terrifying, bone-chilling, hair-raising puppy.
Finding a boulder to sit on, my eyes wandered to the night sky. It sent a
chill down my spine. The vastness and depth glistened over us with
promises of Sources and heavens no one could prove existed. Bullshit. I’d
always been a skeptic. I had seen the conflict between those who idolized
the Sources and those who did not.
Yet the stars continued to orbit while I was stuck in these damp, dark
woodlands. But I deserved far worse than this. That repeated thought had
eaten away at me for four centuries.
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