He didn't like to ask favours or advice of anyone.
When Teague was young, he had asked Maeve to help him with a troublesome passageway in the castle. It had been sealed many years previously, and he wanted to explore it.
She had replied that if he never needed to ask help of anyone, he would never need to rely on anyone. A harsh lesson, but when he had been stabbed by Erjad he finally understood.
To put trust in someone else was to be weak.
However, he had no choice this time. Something had gone wrong in the weak mind of the pathetic human…who had the key to everything he needed. So he decided to help her in order to get the knife. But it should have been his. By rights it was his. He didn't need her permission…he was doing this so that-
He was nervous of where this conversation was going. Darn. It was Jared again. That stupid, pathetic influence on his mind. It was crazy to have conversations with yourself, right? But he wasn't crazy.
King Lucian was more trustworthy than Queen Maeve. His father could actually listen without trying to get something out of the information for his own gains. Unlike his devious hag of a mother.
Teague materialised into King Lucian's office. He was not there, but answers were.
He gently put Mina down on a red loveseat, and cast a camouflage charm over her. Now nobody could see her but himself.
Lucian opened the door to his office. He had clearly just eaten his lunch, for he had traces of food in his beard and around his mouth. He shut the door, then burped, scratched himself, and finally noticed Teague. His face blanched.
"What are you doing here?" he demanded. He tried to open the door, but Teague made it stick.
"I shall not harm you. I need…information."
Lucian relaxed and sat down at his desk in the office chair. He leant forward and clasped his hands. "Go on."
"So…" Teague started. "I was…visiting some Grimms and …" This was going to be tricky. He couldn't let his father know exactly what was going on, but he did need Lucian's knowledge.
"Well, I was pushing one into a tale but they got a concussion in the middle of it. Their perspective of everything completely changed and I need them to go back to normal before anyone notices what's up."
Lucian smiled. "Oh, well that's easy. Some of your magic has obviously rubbed off on them, and they believe that they are the character."
"So…what do I do?"
"Just wait for the tale to play out. In this sort of situation, things go back to normal after a little while."
"There's no other option?"
"No."
Meanwhile on the human plane"Where can she be?" Sara cried.
"You don't know either?"
Teague hadn't known that all of the people Mina was close to were protected. By Fae magic. So everywhere was in an uproar.
Nan was on the phone.
"Well…" Sara thought for a moment. "She could have found about Mrs. Wong."
She listened to Nan.
"Well, you know Mrs. Wong. She passed away last night and we're all devastated. Maybe Mina found out and has run off somewhere to be in private."
She listened again.
"Yes, I know you arranged to meet her, but the truth is she might have found out about it just afterwards and not thought of anyone else."
"Yes, well, we'll see how it goes and give her time."
"Okay, bye!"
