The Fae World: Adrian: The Coffe Shop (part 5)

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“There’s nothing wrong with you, Phoebe,” Adrian said, knowing at the same time he was reminding himself of the same thing. Whenever he forgot to create his glamour when he walked into the house his parents called home he had to deal with the same disgust. “People just have trouble dealing with things that are different and it’s worse now because of the fae and humans living together. Humans aren’t comfortable with the fae, the fae aren’t comfortable with humans, and people who are a mix of both…” He shook his head. “Even though it seems like no one wants to take responsibility for you there are some fae who do think it’s past time that we did something.”

“Maybe they do, but do you think that we’d find it easy to trust any fae.” Phoebe brushed a hand through her hair, looking uncomfortable, and then sighed. “I’m sorry, Adrian, I know you’re fae, and it sounds like you want to help us, but we’ve all been affected by the choices the fae made, as well as the choices our human parents made. Here we have a place we feel comfortable, safe, and thanks to the hard work of the other mixed bloods who created this place we have a chance at having a life.”

“I can’t imagine what you’ve all been through and I can’t possibly understand the way you feel, but I do have some idea of how hard it can be to trust someone after you’ve been treated as though you shouldn’t exists. It’s something I lived with every day until I started at the school, although even then there were some students who looked at me in such a way that told me they’d been taught by their parents to look down on people like me. Fortunately I’ve been lucky enough to make some really good friends from such a mix of backgrounds that I’ve learnt my only option is to take everyone I meet at face value.”

“You’re the first pure blood fae I’ve met.” Phoebe glanced at his ears. “If that’s the right thing to call you.”

“I’m not as pure as some, but the blood of shifters is so far back in our family tree that we can’t even remember when it happened, so I’m still legally a pure blood.” Adrian rubbed a hand over his ear, smiling. “It’s only if you can trace your lineage back to a shifter, a mer-person, or a human that you’re legally a mixed blood, and even now there are debates about how different mixed bloods should be defined. The Queen thinks a mixed blood is a mixed blood, so there need be no other definition, but others are arguing that anyone under a certain percentage of fae blood should be legally defined as whatever the rest of their blood is.” He shook his head. “From what I’ve heard she’s arguing that it doesn’t matter how fae someone’s blood is, because someone with a low percentage of fae in their lineage can be a stronger magician than a pure blood fae.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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but do you think that we’d find it easy to trust any fae.

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I do have some idea of how hard it can be to trust someone after you’ve been treated as though you shouldn’t exists.

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