Just Believe

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Author: Anne Manning
Tags: Fiction, Erótica, paranormal romance, new concepts publishing
had him wondering.
    Eochy wasn't smiling at all.
    "The reason the Fairy Controversy was
put on the agenda is this. We've received a directive from the
Council in Ireland to cease all contact with mortals. It's just too
dangerous."
    "What!" The word echoed all around the
chamber.
    Gaelen stared in disbelief. "Eochy,
that's unreasonable. We all," he motioned around the chamber, "have
careers, lives out there. We can't just drop them." He paused, not
even having the words to continue. "To do what? To go
where?"
    "I suspect we'll all be ordered back to
Ireland."
    The grumble of discontent grew
louder.
    "Look, people, I didn't do this.
Irresponsibility like that practiced by Lucas Riley did." Eochy
leaned back in his big chair. "Don't you remember the stories in
Britain in the twenties? A bunch of fairies thought it would be fun
to reveal themselves to some schoolgirls. These schoolgirls got
their little Brownie camera out and, voila! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
gets on the case and our pictures are all over the London papers."
He sighed. "I understand, believe me I do, but times have changed.
Revealing ourselves only results in mortal folk going out of their
way to disprove our existence. Do you know how many fairies faded
to nothing, just because a number of our group couldn't keep their
wings folded up?"
    Eochy's voice rumbled off the walls,
rattling the magic stones in their brass mountings. The last time
Eochy had gotten this worked up, he'd shattered a couple of stones
and, until they could get some shipped in from Ireland, the North
American Council of Fairies had held their meetings in the
dark.
    "So, what happened, Eochy?" someone
asked.
    "As far as I can tell, Lucas and this
young lady, this--" Eochy referred to his notes. "Erin Tinker. Yes,
she's a nursing student at the University. They were...well,
anyway, when he..." Eochy yanked his specs off. "His wings popped
up, and she screamed, and he squooshed."
    "He squooshed with his wings extended?"
another fairy asked.
    "Ouch!" said one compassionate
listener. "Didn't you explain the facts of life to your brother,
Gaelen?"
    "My father did," Gaelen replied, angry
his family was the center of such a scandal. When Gaelen got his
hands on his little brother, Lucas would have more to think about
than a pair of sore wings.
    But such a mishap would explain the
pain Gaelen sensed when he'd had contact with Lucas earlier. He
felt Lucas's injury in the right wing, the torn connective tissue
underneath the shoulder blade. A sympathetic twinge reminded Gaelen
of a similar injury he himself had sustained in similar
circumstances.
    But not with a human, for Bridget's
sake!
    "He's hurt, Eochy."
    "All the more reason to handle this
matter right here. He must be brought before the Council. He must
be dealt with. The girl, too."
    Gaelen shuddered. "What are you
saying?"
    Eochy's wise old black eyes fixed on
him. "We might be able to handle this ourselves. But we must not be
discovered. If we can contain this, prevent the tabloids from
spreading the story, maybe I can convince the Elders to rescind
their order. But we can't risk our literal lives for the sake of
our lives in the Otherworld. If the humans find out about us..."
Eochy spread his hands. "Well, you know how quick they are to
disbelieve."
    "Some of them believe," Gaelen
said.
    Eochy nodded. "Some of them will
believe anything. But humans as a race cling to the belief they
have a clue about what's going on in the universe. When the
scientists get started..."
    A murmur arose in the assembly followed
by a wave of fear.
    "We'll all end up on ice at Area 51
with the aliens," came a gruff prediction from the
gallery.
    The idea of being a scientific
curiosity appealed no more to Gaelen than it did to anybody else.
If this story was true, then Lucas had committed a major
felony.
    "So, what do you want me to do?" he
finally ground out.
    "Find him. Bring him to us so we can
handle this, or the Elders will."
    "What will you do to him?"
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