A Glimmering Girl (29 page)
Authors: L. K. Rigel
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Mythology & Folk Tales, #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Fantasy, #Paranormal & Urban, #Sword & Sorcery, #Fairy Tales, #Mythology, #Arthurian
“Somewhere Van Morrison is playing our song,” Cade said.
Lilith nodded. “‘Into the Mystic
.
’”
“To all lovers.” Cade lifted his glass to the hazel and honeysuckle. “You’re my hazel tree, Lilith. I’m the honeysuckle, wrapping my bumbling, gawking self around you, clinging to your magnificence.”
Lilith leaned back against Igdrasil, and Cade laid his head in her lap. She played with his wavy russet hair. “Sometimes my heart is so full, Cade. I could cry for days with happiness, and then start all over again. The worst thing about so much happiness was being so afraid of losing it.”
“All is well and always will be.”
“You sound so sure.”
“When you were in surgery and I feared the worst, I heard the sound of wings and felt someone in the room.”
“A fairy?”
“No. My face was buried in my hands, and when I looked up… He was basketball-player tall, and as fit. He had thick black hair in a braid that fell to his waist, and a mix of crosses tattooed on his biceps.
“Velyn,” Igraine said.
“Your fallen angel of Avalos.”
Lilith hadn’t brought Cade with her when she’d returned
Mistcutter
, but afterward she’d told him about Velyn and the island.
“He told me all would be well and right, that I had made the right choice this time, and that you and I will be together forever.”
“What choice?”
“I have no idea. I was so relieved I forgot to ask.” Cade twisted around to the basket and took out something wrapped in silk. “And then he was gone, and these were in my hands.”
“Apple blossoms—but they’re jewels.”
“Apple blossoms for my glimmering girl. I knew then it was true. All would be well. All would be right.”
Lilith took another sip of her wine, and as Cade arranged the blossoms in her hair, they attached themselves by their tendrils. “I know I’ll never lose my glimmering girl,” he said.
“I will find out where she has gone,”
He quoted Yeats.
“And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.”
A Glimmering Girl
A Tale of Wyrd and Fae
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 2 » Daughter of the High Gods
Chapter 5 » Everyone Wants to be Fae
Chapter 6 » These Dreams of You
Chapter 7 » From War to Rumors of War
Chapter 10 » The Iron of Dumnos
Chapter 12 » Because a Fire Was in My Head
Chapter 13 » Candle and Goblin
Chapter 14 » Coffee and a Secret
Chapter 15 » Igraine’s Altered Eye
Chapter 20 » The Falcon and the Dove
Chapter 23 » Lord Dumnos at Faeview