Ovelia's POV
A sudden gale-force wind ripped through the clearing, its force so powerful it sent the Electro-Blast veering off course. The crackling energy detonated harmlessly above the treetops, lighting up the night sky in a brilliant blue flash.
My eyes caught movement near my face - what I first mistook for a butterfly fluttering erratically. As it drew closer, the creature's form became clear: a male fairy no taller than my hand, his iridescent wings refracting light like prisms. His snow-white hair floated around his delicate features, and his storm-gray eyes glowed with an inner light.
"He saved us again," Lady Firera grumbled inside my skull, her mental voice thick with annoyance.
Again?
My breath caught in my throat. "You're... real," I whispered, my fingers trembling as they rose unbidden toward him.
The fairy tales about Apple Forest—they hadn't been mere stories after all.
