Wander The Night by Sydney Cobb EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Sydney Cobb
- Language: English
- Genre: Fairy Tale Fantasy
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PROLOGUE
Shakespeare wouldhave started this tale with a witty and poetic
prologue, complete with a brief overview of historical events, a
disclaimer that would allow him to escape royal ire, and a well-placed
innuendo that modern readers don’t understand. Personally, I’m no poet or
playwright. I’m not interested in most historical events, I function as my
own disclaimer, and I find nothing better than wit when it comes to humor.
Ol’ Shakes was a good writer, the best some say, but I find that subjective,
as all art is. And like most artists, he found muses in a lot of different
places. Some tales he took from history; some he took from poems. One he
learned from me.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he called it. It’s about a king and queen of
the faeries who argue over which of them gets to keep a mortal child. His
mother died, and both rulers believed themselves entitled to him: one due to
assumed jealousy, the other due to friendship. A good, long conversation
probably would have helped the situation, but the fey don’t always think
that way. Trickery tends to be the default route for us.
Shakespeare’s tale was a whimsical comedy of errors. Of pranks and
trickery and jealous love. And not a tremendous amount of plot, to be
honest. But it wasn’t the whole story. Few tales are. The rest comes many
years after, when the boy is older and another child arrives.
What the world believed was a dream wasn’t quite so, but Shakespeare
did get some things correct: our stories start at night.
Within an ancient forest, deep beneath a hill, the night is alive with
the pulse of music. Bodies of dancing fey sway and writhe in time
to the eerie sound of violins and woodwinds and lute strings. Wine flows
freely, and Robin Goodfellow is well on his way to inebriation.
That’s me. I’m Robin, the only puck in existence to make a home within
a faerie court, and quite possibly the only puck most people in the courts
have ever dealt with.
If I wished to be with others like me, it’s probably too late to change
things now. The king all but owns me, and I’ve been here so long, I
wouldn’t know where to go anyway. Besides, who else would he trust to
run his clandestine errands or bring him information from the shadows of
the court?
“Have you seen her yet?” the girl at my elbow asks. Her greenish hair is
tangled with twigs, but she has a pretty face. Spots of color sit high on her
cheeks from too much wine. “The princess. What does she look like?”
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