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A Kiss Of Shadows :: Гамильтон Лорел
Страница: 142 из 338All I know is that you are Princess of Flesh, and you have one more hand of power that has not manifested yet."
"It's rare for a sidhe to have more than one hand of power. Why would I have two?"
"Your hands had melted two of the metal bars on the bed. Two bars melted, one for each hand."
I stood and stepped away from him. "How did you know that?"
"I watched you sleep from the balcony. I saw the headboard."
"Why didn't you make yourself known to me?"
"At that point you were in what amounted to a drugged sleep. I doubt I could have wakened you."
"Why not the night you used the spiders? The night at Alistair Norton's?"
"You mean the human who was worshiping the sidhe."
That stopped me. I stared at him. "What are you talking about, Doyle? When did Norton worship the sidhe?"
"When he stole the power from the women using Branwyn's Tears," Doyle said.
"No, I was there. I was nearly a victim. There was no ceremony invoking the sidhe."
"Every schoolchild in this country is taught the one thing that the sidhe were prohibited from doing when we were welcomed into this country."
"We could not set ourselves up as gods. We could not be worshiped. I got the lecture at home from Father, and at school in history class, government class."
"You are the only one of us ever educated with the common humans. I forget that sometimes. The queen was livid when she discovered Prince Essus had enrolled you in a public school."
"She tried to drown me when I was six, Doyle. She tried to drown me like a purebred puppy that came out with the wrong markings. I wouldn't think she'd have given a damn what school I went to."
"I don't think I've ever seen the queen so surprised as when Prince Essus took you, and his entourage, and set up housekeeping among the humans." He smiled, a brief flash of white in that dark face. "Once she realized that the prince would not stand for your mistreatment, then she began to try and lure him back to court. She offered him much, but he refused for ten years. Long enough for you to grow from child to woman out among the humans."
"If she was so upset, why did she allow so many of the Unseelie Court to visit us?"
"The queen, and the prince, feared that you would grow too human if you did not see your people. Though the queen did not approve of your father's choices for his entourage."
"You mean Keelin," I said.
He nodded. "The queen never understood why he insisted on choosing a fey who had no sidhe blood in her veins as your constant companion."
"Keelin is half brownie like my grandmother.
"It's rare for a sidhe to have more than one hand of power. Why would I have two?"
"Your hands had melted two of the metal bars on the bed. Two bars melted, one for each hand."
I stood and stepped away from him. "How did you know that?"
"I watched you sleep from the balcony. I saw the headboard."
"Why didn't you make yourself known to me?"
"At that point you were in what amounted to a drugged sleep. I doubt I could have wakened you."
"Why not the night you used the spiders? The night at Alistair Norton's?"
"You mean the human who was worshiping the sidhe."
That stopped me. I stared at him. "What are you talking about, Doyle? When did Norton worship the sidhe?"
"When he stole the power from the women using Branwyn's Tears," Doyle said.
"No, I was there. I was nearly a victim. There was no ceremony invoking the sidhe."
"Every schoolchild in this country is taught the one thing that the sidhe were prohibited from doing when we were welcomed into this country."
"We could not set ourselves up as gods. We could not be worshiped. I got the lecture at home from Father, and at school in history class, government class."
"You are the only one of us ever educated with the common humans. I forget that sometimes. The queen was livid when she discovered Prince Essus had enrolled you in a public school."
"She tried to drown me when I was six, Doyle. She tried to drown me like a purebred puppy that came out with the wrong markings. I wouldn't think she'd have given a damn what school I went to."
"I don't think I've ever seen the queen so surprised as when Prince Essus took you, and his entourage, and set up housekeeping among the humans." He smiled, a brief flash of white in that dark face. "Once she realized that the prince would not stand for your mistreatment, then she began to try and lure him back to court. She offered him much, but he refused for ten years. Long enough for you to grow from child to woman out among the humans."
"If she was so upset, why did she allow so many of the Unseelie Court to visit us?"
"The queen, and the prince, feared that you would grow too human if you did not see your people. Though the queen did not approve of your father's choices for his entourage."
"You mean Keelin," I said.
He nodded. "The queen never understood why he insisted on choosing a fey who had no sidhe blood in her veins as your constant companion."
"Keelin is half brownie like my grandmother.