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A Stroke Of Midnight :: Гамильтон Лорел
Страница: 120 из 293But I also think that we should be tryingto make the princess queen instead of playing copper.”
A pulse of power shot from the chalice along my skin. It raised the hair on my body, and collapsed me to my knees. Frost and Hawthorne kept everyone else from touching me.
“What is wrong with the princess?” Dogmaela said.
“And why do you not want us touching her?” This from Aisling, who was still hiding behind his hood and muffler so that only the spirals of his eyes showed. He’d been one of the queen’s men, and never mine before or even now. His eyes were not the three rings of color common among the sidhe, but a spiral painted in lines of color, with his pupil at the heart of the design. As a child I’d once asked him how he could see out of them, and he had smiled and replied that he did not know.
Frost, Hawthorne, and I exchanged glances. All the other guards looked at me where I knelt and waited. Waited for me to make up my mind.
The sweet scent of apple blossoms filled the air, and that sense of peace that could come when you worshipped filled me. I wasn’t certain it was a good idea but I got to my feet and flung my cloak back, revealing the chalice in my hands.
“That isn’t…” Dogmaela began.
“It cannot be,” Aisling said.
“But it is.” Ivi looked at me with a seriousness that the laughter did not touch. He shook his head. “You’ve had it since you arrived back at the courts, haven’t you?”
I nodded.
“How?” Dogmaela asked. “How?”
“It came to me in a dream, and when I woke it was real.”
Several of them were shaking their heads.
Ivi grinned suddenly. “You fell to your knees when I said we should be trying to make you queen, instead of playing copper.”
The chalice pulsed between my hands, and my body reacted to it. For an instant my skin glowed white, my hair was a crimson halo around me, and my eyes glowed green and gold, so that for a heartbeat I saw the color out of the edges of my vision. The power vanished as instantly as it had come, leaving my pulse thudding in my throat.
“Hmm, that was fun,” Ivi said.
“You just want to fuck her,” Dogmaela said, and she made it sound like a dirty thing. An unusual attitude among any fey.
“Yes,” Ivi said, “but that doesn’t make me wrong.”
“The police will return soon,” I said, my voice still a little breathy from the power rush.
“And once they return, the investigation will take all your attention,” Frost said. “Whatever we are to discuss, it must be now.
A pulse of power shot from the chalice along my skin. It raised the hair on my body, and collapsed me to my knees. Frost and Hawthorne kept everyone else from touching me.
“What is wrong with the princess?” Dogmaela said.
“And why do you not want us touching her?” This from Aisling, who was still hiding behind his hood and muffler so that only the spirals of his eyes showed. He’d been one of the queen’s men, and never mine before or even now. His eyes were not the three rings of color common among the sidhe, but a spiral painted in lines of color, with his pupil at the heart of the design. As a child I’d once asked him how he could see out of them, and he had smiled and replied that he did not know.
Frost, Hawthorne, and I exchanged glances. All the other guards looked at me where I knelt and waited. Waited for me to make up my mind.
The sweet scent of apple blossoms filled the air, and that sense of peace that could come when you worshipped filled me. I wasn’t certain it was a good idea but I got to my feet and flung my cloak back, revealing the chalice in my hands.
“That isn’t…” Dogmaela began.
“It cannot be,” Aisling said.
“But it is.” Ivi looked at me with a seriousness that the laughter did not touch. He shook his head. “You’ve had it since you arrived back at the courts, haven’t you?”
I nodded.
“How?” Dogmaela asked. “How?”
“It came to me in a dream, and when I woke it was real.”
Several of them were shaking their heads.
Ivi grinned suddenly. “You fell to your knees when I said we should be trying to make you queen, instead of playing copper.”
The chalice pulsed between my hands, and my body reacted to it. For an instant my skin glowed white, my hair was a crimson halo around me, and my eyes glowed green and gold, so that for a heartbeat I saw the color out of the edges of my vision. The power vanished as instantly as it had come, leaving my pulse thudding in my throat.
“Hmm, that was fun,” Ivi said.
“You just want to fuck her,” Dogmaela said, and she made it sound like a dirty thing. An unusual attitude among any fey.
“Yes,” Ivi said, “but that doesn’t make me wrong.”
“The police will return soon,” I said, my voice still a little breathy from the power rush.
“And once they return, the investigation will take all your attention,” Frost said. “Whatever we are to discuss, it must be now.