Excerpt: Chapter Two

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CHAPTER TWO

        Hadrian sat, savoring his latte. Laaah-Tae, what a strange thing to call this concoction. This coffee was so much different than the coffee he drank when he visited the human world right before the Great Wars. Everything smacked of new. Living in the virtually unchanging realm of the Fae he forgot how quickly mortals reinvent their world, how industriously they worked to create. Like these Laaah-Taes.

        As he took a tiny taste, savoring it, he studied the woman behind the counter through half-closed eyelash shutters. Why was she pretending to be human? She was so obviously one of the fair folk to his eyes, he was shocked the humans around him didn’t notice her. By the stars, her blue-purple irises changed shapes! You’d think that would be a pretty clear indication of ‘other worldliness.’ Such dim-witted mortals. They only ever see what they expect to see. It was their myopic nature.

        He let her alone though. Seeing as how she’d refrained from acknowledging him, he assumed she wanted to be left alone.  Whatever her unfathomable business here was, it was none of his concern. He was here to find adventure.

        Things had grown dull in Faerie. There are only so many endless revels that one can go to before they get bored. Even watching a hated banshee get torn limb from limb, wailing the whole way through, no longer gave him a thrill.

        No, he wanted something more than entertainment, he wanted an unscripted, reckless escapade. Perhaps for the first time ever, he might just experience fear. Fear…something humans knew well, what with their whole dying thing. He’d watched more than a few humans’ eyes fill with fear before he’d ended their already short lives.

        Being immortal kind of took the excitement out of life. He knew he’d be here forever, barring the insanely unlikely chance that some creature able to wield a cold iron blade could get the best of him. And forever was looking a little colorless right now.

        Maybe that female Fae knew where to find something like that. She did seem to be very comfortable in this mortal business, acting like a shop-keeper. Perhaps she knew a good war to get involved in. His forays onto human killing-fields had always been fun. Hadrian planned on asking her, right after he finished this Laaah-Tae.

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-Caylie