Page 12 of The Fae Girl 1

“A days ride.” He said. “I can provide horses, soldiers, whatever you want.”

“We’ll take the horses.” I stated. “If you arrange for fresh ones at each stop. But the rest you can keep.”

“You’d turn down soldiers? Even with a Fae?”

I narrowed my eyes, glancing about. “No one knows of this yet. So we keep this to ourselves.”

“You plan to conceal it?”

“At least until we are back at Montefore.”

He tilted his head. “That’s a bold move Fain. Even for you.”

I shrugged getting to my feet. The feast was over. Duty once again was calling me.

“It seems to me you’ve been very fortunate.” Rette said standing as well.

“In what way?”

“If I hadn’t have insisted you come all the way I might have been tempted to keep the Fae for myself.”

I smirked. “You’re not that much of a scoundrel Rette.” I replied as he laughed more.

* * *

We arrived with the dawn.We’d ridden through the night, me, Ridley and the entire damn detachment. Rette was right, we were fortunate to have been this far west. If we’d set off from Montefore by the time we arrived I don’t doubt word would have gotten out, and there would almost certainly be a fight on our hands.

I dismounted, pulling the reins over my horses head and handed them to the waiting stableboy who looked half petrified of me.

“High Prince Fain.”

I turned, seeing the Magi stood half in shadow. He bowed quickly, then glanced around as if he thought someone might jump out at us.

“Where is the Fae?” I asked.

He winced. “She is sleeping.”

“Sleeping?” Why did he look so embarrassed by that?

“I had to put her to sleep. To stop her from fighting.” He said.

“I see.” I grumbled.

“If you would like I can take you to see her.”

“What would be the point?” I replied. I could hardly transport her like that, though the thought did cross my mind. Maybe I could keep her like that, asleep that is, shove her in a box and have her pulled along in a cart.

I shook my head at the idea. No, it would slow us down too much and right now the only thing we had on our side was speed.

The Magi bowed again like he wasn’t sure what to do.

“When will she wake?” I asked.

“In a few hours.”

“Good. See that she is ready when she does. We’ll leave as soon as she’s up.”

He nodded turning to go.

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