Solomon' Daughters

Chapter 38

"Anthony whats wrong," Mina shout as she rushed forward and grabbed him before his face could hit the floor of the cave. The queen was on her feet watching.

"Look at his hand," Sunshine voice shrill with distress sound from her shoulder where she and her daughters were seated clutching her shirt. The back of Anthony's hand had a bumo that looked like an insect bite in the center. What was really alarming was the black color slowly creeping along his veins outward from the wound.

"What do we do," Mina asked the fairy who shook her head with sorrow. The queen swiftly came down the steps to look at his hand. Gripping it in hers she examined the wound for a few moments before gesturing to the two gaurds. Take him to a guest room and summon a shaman to remove the poison and heal him. The guards easily hefted Anthony's inert form between the two of them and carried him from the room. When Mina made to follow after the queen grabbed her arm and stopped her.

"There is nothing you can do for him and we must speak. How did he come to be infected with Troll venom?"

"He saved these fairies," Mina told the queen and then related the tale of what had happened as they waited for her messenger. Sunshine spoke up to verify the story when Mina was done telling it. The queen moved over to a set of chairs off to the side of the room and motioned for Mina to take one as she took another.

"Do you know what his proposal for my clan was? If not please tell me the story of how a human became the companion of a djinn and how he is becoming a djinn," the queen requested.

"As to his proposal I don't know much about it or him other then that he is a good man. I only just met him today. As for the other that I cna tell you," Mina said. She told the queen everything that Sar-Rah, Eliza, Liz had told her of how the events before her release had played out. The queen listened with out interupting and wondered what the strange human wanted from her and her people. As Mina finished relaying the story a hunch white bearded giblin entered the room leaning heavily on a staff twice the short creatues own hieght.

"My Queen, the human has had the poison removed but magic in his body is not allowing for mine to enter him and heal him. So while he will not die from the poison he has a fever that should pass in the night. If everything goes well he should be well by tomorrow."

"Thank you shaman you have done well," the queen said to the old goblin and he left the room. The queen stood and motioned for Mina to follow her. She led them back into the tunnels to a door. Opening the door they found Anthony tucked into a canopied bed in a lavishly furnished room. The queen allowed them to enter before telling them not to leave the room until they were summoned the next day. Placing one of the pillows form the bed on the night stand next to it she lowered Sunshine, Moonlight, and Wind onto it before crawling into the bed next to Anthony.

"Goodnight," she said to the fairies and was answered with a corus of good nights. Curling her body around his hot one she wrapped her arm around his muscled chest and clung to him until she drifted off to sleep.