The Many Ramblings of K. A. Webb

It wasn’t unusual for Mirai’s father to disappear off with one of his advisers before breakfast, but this time something seemed different. She looked at her mother, who obviously hadn’t noticed anything as she was spreading jam on her toast, before thinking back to what had woken her up. There had been times before when Leif had woken her up, because something had happened that would affect them both, and normally she did answer, knowing that as a son he had more information than she ever would have. Unfortunately she hadn’t made it to the communication crystal before he’d rung off, so she didn’t know what was happening the way she would have done if she had answered, and she couldn’t leave the table in the middle of breakfast without explaining why to her mother, which wasn’t something she wanted to do.



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Collection: The Fae World, Status: Complete, Word Count: 3000 - 4000

It wasn’t unusual for Mirai’s father to disappear off with one of his advisers before breakfast, but this time something seemed different. She looked at her mother, who obviously hadn’t noticed anything as she was spreading jam on her toast, before thinking back to what had woken her up. There had been times before when Leif had woken her up, because something had happened that would affect them both, and normally she did answer, knowing that as a son he had more information than she ever would have. Unfortunately she hadn’t made it to the communication crystal before he’d rung off, so she didn’t know what was happening the way she would have done if she had answered, and she couldn’t leave the table in the middle of breakfast without explaining why to her mother, which wasn’t something she wanted to do.

Biting hard on her lip Mirai forced herself to focus on breakfast. She would eventually find out from either her father or from Leif, but that wasn’t making her any less worried. Even though she hated the small talk her mother usually forced on her she would have given anything at that moment for her to start rambling on about something exceedingly unimportant. Instead her mother focused her entire attention on a slice of toast without saying a word. Sighing, she picked up her fork and then put it back down again.

“Mother,” Mirai said, “I need to go to the bathroom.”

Without looking up at Mirai her mother waved her knife and replied, “Go on then, sweetie.”

Thankfully her mother kept her attention on the slice of toast as Mirai want in the opposite direction of the bathroom and headed to her bedroom, where she kept her communication crystal. As she thought of Leif all she could do was hope that he was available to talk. After what seemed like hours later he did answer, looking very much like he was trying not to grin.

“What’s going on?” Mirai asked.

“Apparently we’ve been cursed.”

Narrowing her eyes, Mirai stared at Leif. “Why is this amusing you?”

“The curse will only be broken if we marry each other. Someone seems to think that it will stop at least some of the fighting between our two groups, but I doubt that’s actually going to happen.”

“I take it you’re not against the idea.”

“Of us getting married?” Mirai nodded. “No, I’m not against the idea,” Leif said, looking thoughtful, “but it’s not as though either of our fathers is going to see it as an option. They’re going to try to break the curse instead.”

“It’s not their choice.”

“No, it’s not, but we both know that it’s unlikely they’re going to ask us for our opinion.” Leif smiled. “Does that mean you think we should go behind our parents’ backs and get married, in order to break the curse?”

Mirai shrugged. “Curses are strange things. Some can be broken, while others can only be worked with, and I have a feeling that whoever created this curse knew what they were doing. It might be our only option.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.