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Aaibhe patted Frankie’s back and held her coly “My Fae child, you are a Daoine Your father is a great warrior Trevor and Jazet near any of them We will defeat the beasts”

Frankie looked up at her and said, “Aye then, but I want to help”

“And you shall You must stay safe so they don’t have to worry about you” Aaibhe dropped a kiss on the child’s forehead

Frankie agreed to it, but Aaibhe could see the child’s h She wasn’t so sure Frankie would stay put for too long She had to keep her diverted because she had to co to be

Chapter Ten

JAZZ LOOKED UP the avenue that led to the Inverness Castle overlooking the gray water of Inverness River The red sandstone structure was hold, it had been built to withstand an ar that Shakespeare had used this castle as his setting for Macbeth

Inverness Castle—here she was in Scotland How long ago was it when she was simply human with human dreams?

She looked around warily Her eyes were no longer those of a tourist, but of a warrior Her Fae senses clicked in on as present and as not

Only the grounds of the castle were open to the public She could see fro lot that there were quite a feho meant to enjoy the extensive landscaped beauty of the castle

She watched as the tourists dise and excited to look back into the past and iine what it was like to live in another time For a while, she had done that…

Jazz would never have thought that she, a Fios, would be in Scotland fighting a war against a race ofherself desperately in love with one Jazz, Ete, and the warriors were invisible to the hu that she couldn’t be seen When she was still human, she would have seen past the Féth Fiada and would have been terrified at the sight And now, ha, she was part of that sight--weird It seeuide for seniors to waste away the suist She had wondered where that girl had gone, and what happened to her life

Ete broke into her thoughts, “Do you see them—the monoliths They are beautiful are they not? It’s so sad that they should be used for such evil”

“I agree I wonder how they are floating like that above the river Is Pestale causing that?”

“No They aren’t floating Jazmine If you look closer, you will see that they are at the water’s edge The monoliths have an aura that only Fae can see That is what ” She smiled at Jazz “Your transition must be near completion if you can see the aura of the monoliths”

“That’s good, right? I gotta tell you I don’t feel like I’m Fae I mean, I can sense a neer just like when I senseover it