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  “Is he dead?” Jake"s wide eyes stared up at him without fear.

  “No, but I think I"ve got a better way of getting you two out of here.” The kid held up his arms in complete trust, dragging out that odd soft emotion from somewhere in his chest. Usually, only his nieces and nephews were able to make him feel like that. Bradley patted Jake"s head with an awkward clawed hand before bending to the mother. His nose wasn"t wrong. She smelled strongly of fairy. And light. If pretty had a smell, this lady was it. Carefully he gathered the unconscious woman in his arms. “Okay, Jake. Hang on to my leg. I"ve only done this a couple of times before.”

  “Okay, Bear,” Jake replied with a gap toothed child"s smile.

  Calling on the fairy magic of his necklace was still pretty new to him. When he"d indentured himself to the fairy lord, he never thought that the job would come with such perks as teleportation. Just as Morgan, the lord of the fairys, showed him, Bradley constructed the spell that moved them from point A to point B in a flash. Literally, the feeling was like being enveloped by the sun and dropped off on the far side of the moon. Blinking to get rid of the temporary blindness, he glanced around the fairy throne room. Silk hangings in every color and delicate furniture was the order of the day, any day. Shuffling with Jake on his leg, Bradley laid the mother down on a lounging couch and instructed the boy to sit with her.

  The End