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A Faerie Tale

Paige Burns, Jodi Lynn Copeland, Rae Monet, Tiffany Aaron

ISBN 1-59578-155-2

A Faerie Tale

Paige Burns, Jodi Lynn Copeland, Rae Monet, Tiffany Aaron

Published 2005

ISBN 1-59578-155-2

Published by Liquid Silver Books, imprint of Atlantic Bridge Publishing, 10509

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Editor

Terri Schaefer

Cover Artist

April Martinez

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and dialogues in this book are of

the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual

events or persons, living or dead, is completely coincidental.

The Faerie Book Of The Symmetry

Chapter 27

The Birth Of Four

“And when Hadrea was cast aside by the Faerie King Lucraxious VII and he entered

into holy union with her fair sister Amara, Hadrea sought reprisal. Lucraxious, having

learned of Hadrea’s plan for vengeance, put to death the dark beauty Hadrea and ordered

her remains be sent to the four corners of the governed world below, Earthatopia. Before

Hadrea could be abolished, she sold her faerie essence to the Ogre King Eskimond in

barter for her rebirth two faerie decades or twenty-eight years from the time of her

demise. Eskimond soon prophesied of Hadrea’s second coming and with it the imbalance

of the governed world and, in turn, the end of Earthatopia and all that inhabit the planet.

“And so, having heard this, the Faerie King vowed to protect his people and the

symmetry of the governed world below, and Lucraxious too bartered with the ogre king.

But Eskimond would only accept an exchange from Lucraxious of the most precious

kind—that of his soon-born girl child’s hand in marriage on the day of her twenty-eighth

birthday. Aware he had no alternatives were he to continue to reside over and keep in

balance the world below, Lucraxious agreed to these terms. But then his fair wife Amara

gave birth to not one, but four lovely daughters and the king grew to love them all at first

sighting. Lucraxious could not give away even one of the adored princesses to the ogre

king and so he entered into a new agreement with Eskimond.

“At the time the double suns of Faeridae reach their highest point on the twenty-

seventh birthday of the faerie princesses, each will be cast to one of the four corners of

Earthatopia and will have one year to join in holy union with an Earthatopian male, who

must love and believe in her faerie essence. If, when the double suns of Faeridae reach

their highest point on the twenty-eighth birthday of the faerie princesses all four have not

entered into holy union, each daughter will be given to the Ogre King Eskimond and

Queen Amara will be extricated to fulfill Hadrea’s demise while Hadrea becomes the

new queen and Earthatopia and all its inhabitants are annihilated forever.”

RING OF FIRE

Paige Burns

Dedication

In memory of my mother, Arless Anne Ehmke. Thanks Mom for teaching me to

chase my dreams.

Special thanks to JLC, for your friendship and encouragement. Sue, Tracey and the

ladies of RTR for bringing me into the fold. Linda, for taking a chance on me. My sister

Tesha, for reading things you wouldn’t normally give a second look. And most important,

my family, for their patience, encouragement, and undying love.

Chapter One

Damia’s idea of a good time included a pint or two of popka, the preferred alcohol of

the fae, and a naked male body or two combined for a good eight hours of kinky faerie

sex. Actually, it had only been six hours this last time—they’d gotten a late start. A good

time did not include her father storming in and waking her up from her sex- induced sleep,

yelling about responsibility then locking her in her room.

She knew she was in deep cac for two reasons. One, she was seriously locked in her

room. Sure, her parents had tried in the past to lock her door, but this time, they

obviously meant it. No amount of magic could unlock the door, or the window for that

matter. And, two, her father had demanded she change into something “proper” within

the hour or there would be “dire consequences.” His words, not hers.

“Illuminate,” she said to the mirror. Nothing. She’d been trying to get her magic to

work in the Earthatopia language but so far, no go.

“Well, cac . Soilsigh ,” she commanded again. The mirror was suddenly backlit with a

green glow. She looked at herself in the reflection and pouted. She didn’t know what was

wrong with her outfit. She’d had to bribe Felix the Spider to get genuine Earth leather. It

hadn’t been much of a bribe, though. One hand job was all it took and she’d had a yard of

the black, supple material to design her latest fashion creation.

Damia ran her hands down the length of her body, following the long, slender strips

of leather that clung to her from shoulder to hip, barely covering her nipples as they

passed over her breasts. Sterling silver chain connected each strip, wrapping around her

back to front to and meeting just under her breasts at a large ruby pendant. Another chain

dangled from the ruby and attached to the leather thong that barely covered her labia.

She spun around, giving a critical eye to the back of the outfit. The back of the thong

was made of more silver chain. Felix had complained about how much silver she’d used,

but she loved the feel of it gliding over her body. And the thong, well, she’d had lots of

fun with the silver attached to the thong.

Her iridescent wings flashed green rainbows in the candlelight. She was the first in

many generations of fae to have single-color wings that matched her skin. That was the

other reason for the black and silver attire, both colors showed off her pale green

luminance to perfection.

“Proper, hmmph! ” Damia stalked to the chest that he ld her ceremonial robes. “Albin

and Aleron didn’t complain about my outfit last night.” The twin faeries had, in fact,

shown her a new thing or two to use the chain for.

“Princess Damia?” a voice called from the door. She didn’t recognize who it was, so

it was probably one of her father’s lackeys. She didn’t respond.

“Princess? I’m to tell you your father expects you in five minutes.”

“Thanks,” Damia replied. She wasn’t normally so polite, but she was still sleepy

from being up all night with the twins and, she had to admit, a little worried about the

meeting with her father. She’d never been called to a meeting before, never. If only she

hadn’t walked by her father’s office yesterday on her way to meet the twins. All she had

heard was something about the balance between the worlds coming to an end before her

father realized his office door was open and ordered his secretary to shut it. She hoped

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