Of Mist and Shadow by Jenna Wolfhart EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Jenna Wolfhart
- Language: English
- Genre: Fairy Tales
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Tessa
I’d been born to fulfill a promise to the fae king. It was an ancient
promise, bound in powerful magic. I was sworn to serve his every
need, smile and laugh at his jokes, be silent when commanded, and
offer myself up as his next mortal bride.
Instead of all that, I leapt into a chasm where monsters lived.
The rope slipped through my gloved hands as I skidded down the side
of the rock face. A welcome wind whipped my hair, cooling the back of my
neck. The chasm was one of the only places in the Kingdom of Light where
I could escape the oppressive heat of the eversun.
Something glittered in the corner of my eye. I braced myself, squeezing
my fists tight around the rope and slowing my fall.
“Oof.” My best friend, Val, lurched to a stop beside me.
“Careful,” I told her. “You need a more controlled descent or you’ll end
up pulling your arm out of its socket.”
I knew from experience.
“I keep forgetting the protection doesn’t work in here,” she muttered.
Val had only been helping me mine gemstones for a month, and there
were some things you could only learn through trial and error, like
remembering we didn’t have the fae king’s protective magic down here, a
power we’d depended on since birth. Because of him, wounds healed fast,
and we couldn’t be killed. The only thing that plagued mortals who lived on
this side of the chasm was old age. And even then, we went quietly in the
middle of the night.
Every single mortal got one hundred years of supposed bliss.
That protection didn’t extend to the Great Rift, though. Because of that,
no one ever ventured inside of it, despite the powerful gemstones that could
be mined here. That and the king’s strict rule prohibiting any living soul
from touching them.
“That’s a big one,” Val whispered as she eyeballed the gemstone
protruding from the black rock. I nodded and traced my fingers along the
smooth edge of it. An ancient power thrummed against my skin, echoes of
the old world. A time when the Kingdom of Light had been a force to be
reckoned with, before the Mist King had vanquished the light and plunged
most of the world into an endless night, trapping those left alive behind the
Great Rift.
“The biggest one I’ve found yet,” I said in a soft voice that echoed
through the whistling chasm. “The rebel leader will be thrilled.”
Val nodded and passed me the metal pick from her belt, though I could
tell by the furrow of her brows that she had something to say.
The steel shrieked as I slammed it against the rock. “Go on then. Out
with it.”
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