Part 10
A side chapter for my change au
Playing with mortals is fun entertainment for boring monarchies, yes, those humans haven´t offended any fae nor their customs and are only guilty of their ignorance, which in contrast, makes the game even more appealing. The fairy Queen is not adverted to those jokes as long those humans leave the kingdom in the end and if the fae so wishes to trap the human in the realm, well, in that case, it would have to be a different game one that almost no one truly wants.
“Little brother, why those 4 mortals? They look so uncute!” Rogue is her name. No, not really, but is one that is more used by everyone else and if you ask Emma is completely unoriginal as Rogue is a Rogue. Rogue likes to wear green dresses and elegant shades of green, however, the only thing not green in her person is her hair. A white trace of hair among her reddish-brown hair. No one knows how Rogue was born with this colour (to be fair, no one knows much about Rogue)
And her little brother, eating an apple, offers his trademark smirk (I´d know more than you) as he glances back to the mortals that are talking with one of his henchwomen. “Is fun toying with them...they´re so predictable...all of them will believe they are the chosen one and follow the leads...they will do my work for me, isn´t that great?” and now the apple is properly eaten and the brother tossed on the sides.
“Well, Kurt, it seems one of them thinks differently?” Rogue asked a bit surprised as among the 4 “chosen ones” one of them, a petite woman with brown hair, is not buying the story in the slightest. And this caught Kurt´s attention.
Kitty Pryde remembers some tales from her grandmother about faes and remembers what happens in the woods ALWAYS stays in the woods (and Kitty shivers because she does not want to remain in the woods for all the eternity) so, to avoid any trick, she used a fake name (faes have no power over you with a fake name) and does not accept those instructions so easily.
“So, are you saying that in order for me to go home...I must do your job?” Kitty, using the name Ariel, replied ignoring her peers who are very much taken by being the chosen ones, and focus only on the henchwoman who is looking the largest tree. (oooh, we´re being watched!)
“Is not my job, the Dark Lord is far too powerful” she tries again in a feeble attempt to easy Kitty´s mind, however, is not successful.
“You, faes, think poorly of us, to say the least why to call humans to defeat a treat you guys couldn´t defeat?” Kitty replied and she caught a whiff of brimstone and is quick to turn around to see Nightcrawler (as he introduces himself) and she feels her heart beating fast.
Is it because he looks like the devil or is because he´s almost naked?
“My, my. What a clever thing we got here” he speaks with an accent full of Germanic roots.
“Not that clever or else I wouldn´t be here”
“True, well, since you´re almost honest with us” oh, he notices her name given was not the real one. “I´ll be almost honest with you. I just want you, mortals, to do some chores for me”
“And then you will send us back home?”
“Of course”
And Kitty does not seem to fully believe him, but, what choice does she have? The others still believe they are the chosen ones (”He said he needs us to do some chores, well, what is a chore for a fae may be a quest for a chosen one!”) and Kitty notices that his eyes (no pupil or iris) seem to follow Kitty in her adventure in fae´s realm.
(Back to the present)
The Fairy Queen is not opposed to games, not really if a fae wants to trap a mortal for their own amusement is fine by her, but, if they wish to keep the human by their sides...rules must be followed and the Queen is nothing if pragmatic.
“Nightcrawler, Kurt. My loyal huntsman. Your beloved is waking...can you handle the situation?”
And Kurt stops the courtier (by all technicalities, he should bow, but, once you have slept with the Queen a few formalities are been allowed) and offers a predatory smile. “I´m nothing more than a hunter and I know how to keep my prey with me if she does wake up, if she does remember...all I must to do is keep by my side”
Meanwhile, Kitty can´t sleep. She keeps remembering blue rooms and brimstone smell and a promise that was made. She can´t sleep and she does not know if she wants to.