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The Other World

Chapter One-Prologue

"James! James! Let him go! James!" She screeched frantically. Someone pulled her back and she struggled. "James! James! Please! Please let him go!"

"Naida, clam down! This is for your own good!" Her mother said calmly.

"It isn't! Let him go! Please mother! Please! James! James!"

A sickening thump sounded through the clearing.

Burying her face in her hands, the sprite fell to her knees beside her lover and cried. "No… no, no, no… this can't be happening…"

"There, there, dear. He was never good enough for you. You deserve one of our kind, not some mortal that would soon wither away…" A soft, melodic voice whispered. The voice was that of Naida's mother, and it was a beautiful, pure sound. But at the moment, Naida never heard something so ugly.

"Leave me alone." She murmured weakly.

"Love, he was nothing more then dead weight."

"Don't say that! He was everything to me… and you had him killed."

"Darling-"

"Just leave me alone!... Please." She finished brokenly.

Her mother nodded respectfully and left the small clearing with a sick smile on her face.

Naida wiped away her violet tears slowly, she brushed her dark brown locks from her face and lowered herself towards James. His skin was white with the exception of the lacerations and burns that marred his skin. As the pale blue being looked over the man she loved, Naida felt the urge to heave. His skin was once so perfect, his eyes so lively… but no more. She would never see his eyes again; never feel his touch again… never hear sweet words of love murmured from his beautiful lips, never again.

Taking in his scent one last time, the sprite pressed her warm tinted blue lips to his cold ones and brushed his blood-matted hair out of his eyes. She whispered I love you before breaking down into hysterical tears again.

"I'll fix this, James." She whispered lovingly. "I swear on pain of death that I'll find a way to make her sorry… You didn't deserve this, James, I didn't deserve you… This is my fault. I'm so sorry."

And then she ran.

There was an unnatural eeriness to the bayou as the sprite sprinted up the wooden steps and knocked on the door feverishly, in fact, Naida almost knocked the door down in order to reach the person inside. Once she had entered the small shack, the sprite was frozen to the floor. All she could do was stand there, her lips quivering, James' shiv clutched tightly in her right hand.

"Come here, child." A voice murmured softly.

Naida did as instructed and all but threw herself at the woman on the other side of the room, her confidant.

"He's gone. By all that's magick, he's gone… and I didn't save him."

"You couldn't have, Naida. It was his time-"

"No it wasn't!" The sprite protested vehemently. "He was supposed to be immortal, he was supposed to live happily with me for eternity… we had promised each other."

And then a thought entered her mind. It was only a subtle whisper at first, but then grew louder and louder until her head was throbbing. Become mortal… Redeem yourself, little sprite. Become mortal…

"I need to leave this place…" Naida said softly. "Can you make me a mortal? One of the Other World?"

The priestess looked at her like she had turned into fire fey at first, but then smiled. "Do not try to convince yourself that this will bring him back, sprite. This will not help to ease your broken heart, nor will you redeem yourself by becoming one of his kind."

"I need to get away! Please, Anathia… I need to leave this place."

"And once you go the realm will be in chaos! Your mother has Dark Fey blood, Naida, she will be sure that every fey suffers."

"I'm not the leader here!" Naida yelled. "I'm not… Palitriva or Quincey can take the throne. I need your help here, Anathia."

Anathia's eyes softened considerably. "Be safe."

The witch stepped back. "Hold your glamour." She commanded.

Naida took her human form and held her breath: This was it.

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