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Flash Fiction # 442/The Fae Underground/18

 (My numbers are off somewhere on the entries for this story.  I haven't figured it out yet, but I hope to soon)We had stepped out into a sky as black as the darkest night.  Worse, really, because there were not even clouds.  The guards all created lights, but even those small flares seemed to disappear into the inky black.  We instinctively huddled together, all of us moving closer to the Queen.

Flash Fiction #440/ The Fae Underground/16

 ThumpThump, thump.And the sound of the soldiers shouting as they prepared.  Lycan turned my way with his eyes wide and the edges of his teeth showing."I know," I said.  I can hear it.  My Queen, we have no time for more discussions.  We seem to be under attack.""What have you brought on us, boy!" Suntour demanded.  I looked at him with a little surprise because I hadn't thought he was that blind

Flash Fiction #440/ The Fae Underground/15

 ThumpThump, thump.And the sound of the soldiers shouting as they prepared.  Lycan turned my way with his eyes wide and the edges of his teeth showing."I know," I said.  I can hear it.  My Queen, we have no time for more discussions.  We seem to be under attack.""What have you brought on us, boy!" Suntour demanded.  I looked at him with a little surprise because I hadn't thought he was that blind

Flash Fiction #439 -- The Fae Underground/15

 I'd feared that she would ask me that sort of question.  I had not expected it to take such a personal form.  This was, in fact, the first time I'd been acknowledged publicly at court."Son of the Queen?" Lycan glanced my way.  His voice didn't sound entirely steady."One of many," I said with a nod to my mother -- I could think of her that way now that she'd made the acknowledgment, but I would

Flash Fiction #439 -- The Fae Underground/14

 I'd feared that she would ask me that sort of question.  I had not expected it to take such a personal form.  This was, in fact, the first time I'd been acknowledged publicly at court."Son of the Queen?" Lycan glanced my way.  His voice didn't sound entirely steady."One of many," I said with a nod to my mother -- I could think of her that way now that she'd made the acknowledgment, but I would

Flash Fiction #438 -- The Fae Underground/14

 Yes, I knew this place.And I kept walking anyway.I brushed at my clothing -- human-made and hardly appropriate for where we were heading.  I supposed, under the circumstances, I would be forgiven.I also came with an unusual array of guests, some of whom might look more like guards.  Well, all of them looked that way, in fact.  Even King Pixie could be dangerous in the right, or wrong, situation.

Flash Fiction # 437 -- The Fae Underground/13

 I hadn't returned to the Faelands in many years.  My heartbeat faster as I opened the way, and I saw Lycan give me a quick frown.  He could sense heartbeats, but I didn't think he'd understand my feelings as I stepped through and into the world I'd longed to see again for years.Have you ever gone home, walked into your house, and simply felt that something was wrong, even though you couldn't put

Flash Fiction #436 -- The Fae Underground/12

  The bigger problem was that the others had started to look at me for answers.  I saw it in their eyes and the way they waited as they expected me to speak.This was not, I realized because I held a title back in the Fae lands.  Most of them -- maybe all of them -- had no idea whom I might be.  Some who did know might think I was a disgraced fae and should be without powers -- but it was clear I

Flash Ficion # 435 -- The Fae Undergroud/11

This was every fae creature in this realm.  Maybe more than would typically have been in the human lands, in fact.  I found myself stepping backward in shock."What does this mean?" Slyph asked softly, her own voice trembling."The problem stretches across realms," Lycan replied.  "Power is moving -- most of it stolen.  This has the feel of a problem long in the making, my friends.  It has the feel

Flash Ficion # 434 -- The Fae Undergroud/11

This was every fae creature in this realm.  Maybe more than would typically have been in the human lands, in fact.  I found myself stepping backward in shock."What does this mean?" Slyph asked softly, her own voice trembling."The problem stretches across realms," Lycan replied.  "Power is moving -- most of it stolen.  This has the feel of a problem long in the making, my friends.  It has the feel