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He did find it odd how devoted this ether had been a short one thus far and yet the tere inseparable Pestale had investigated and found that Morrigu had not even compelled hi and laughing as though it was meant to be

He no longer believed in such things He had once thought that Royce wasIf this huu then he would send hiood diversion for her, as Hordly and he were too busy to look after her many needs

Suddenly a shiver swept through hi He looked up into the cloud splattered sky Sole with dread But what could it be?

He couldn’t see anything, but he certainly felt the ic, whether it hite or dark He sensed so in the atmosphere

Only one winged Fae remained, Deimne

Was it the Sluagh high above?

What would the Sluagh want? What could the Sluagh learn hovering above his castle?

Pestale didn’t like this He wasn’t ready for an attack by the Seelie Fae If it was the Sluagh then he needed to be prepared for the winged Fae’s next visit

The Sluagh was the only Fae capable of hiding hi him to his core

How dare the Sluagh fly over his castle! It was further proof that he, the first of the Dark King’s sons was more Unseelie than Seelie Fae For a Seelie Fae would have seen through his invisibility

Dau’s DNA and the Dark King’s DNA so much a part of him, why hadn’t he turned out completely Royal Seelie?

He knew the answer, of course, for his father had explained it once It was simple—his father had erred

The Dark King anxious to create his son all powerful, slipped in the DNA of an Ancient and beloved Danu creature He had not realized that it had been daed by the solution the DNA had been preserved in

The Dark King had hoped to instill all this creature’s powers and abilities for great empathy and kindness and instead, it had ether different

Graely and his youngest brother, as now dead, had not received those genes Only he and Hordly had