by Erin R Flynn
Arguments broke out all over the place behind me and I completely tuned out, hoping they worked it all out before the rune wore off. Then again, White was there now and could do way better than what I had done so I didn’t have to worry about any of it. I was so stupid to not have called her first.
I realized there was one thing I also needed the answer to that I kept forgetting and pushing off over and over and again and if I’d learned anything that night, I needed to stop doing that.
I still had my phone in my hand and decided to make another call.
“How’s the party?” Katrina greeted.
“Oh, a fucking disaster but not why I’m calling,” I chuckled darkly. “What’s a comitissa? You’re one of the people whose called me that and I never asked what it is. I keep thinking I’ll find it in my reading or in a journal but I never do and I—I should know what it is.”
She was quiet for a few moments. “Tamsin, are you okay?”
“No, no I’m not fucking okay, Katrina, but please just tell me what it is,” I rasped. “I’m still missing too much and at least help me learn this so I don’t fuck up again.”
She cleared her throat. “The reason you didn’t find it in your reading is it’s a bastardization of a Faerie word. It’s said when the first fairies came over from Faerie, they didn’t speak our languages, of course. They quickly learned and adapted as you can, but when the woman introduced herself, she used a word that sounded like the Latin comitissa, which we all know Latin for spells and such.
“In Latin it simply means ‘countess’ but the Faerie word that sounds like it that only fairies or fair folk can truly pronounce is actually more like ‘ambassador.’ The woman was saying she was an ambassador from Faerie. However, the people then didn’t understand that with the language barrier and in her party were her mates, plural.
“Our supe ancestors believed the term to fairies was meant as one who had multiple mates and that has stuck. She was said to be incredibly powerful, vastly powerful and unlike anything any supe had seen and of course the wise choice to send as an ambassador. But now the term is for a powerful supe who will probably have multiple mates as that’s how things tend to work out.”
Oh yeah, I really should have asked that one sooner. Fuck.
But there was something that didn’t track with all of that. “I thought all supes were born of fairies and humans originally?”
“There are several different legends and they’re probably all truly wrong just as humans and their multiple versions of god and religions.”
Right, that made sense. Fair enough. That really left one question then. “How do you know I’m a comitissa?”
She quietly chuckled. “You draw powerful men to you, Tamsin. Like attracts like in that way and given how fucking powerful you are you’ll need more than one mate to keep up with you and help you handle it all. That’s what being a comitissa really is. You’re a handful that no one man could keep up with on his own.”
That really wasn’t what I wanted to hear after the fucked-up night I’d had. I think I muttered some sort of thank you or good night but for all I knew I actually told her to fuck off before I hung up. I went into the kitchen and plugged my phone in, the dogs following after me as if knowing what I was doing and where I was going even when I didn’t.
I ended up downstairs in the basement and at the portal to Faerie with a blanket in my hand. I activated the portal and let the dogs all go through, assuming they knew to stay away from the caustic darkness. That seemed like something that would be in their instincts or at least they would know from me.
They stayed close as I found a comfy spot on the grass and curled up with the blanket to sleep. Maybe I would just stay there in Faerie? At least here I was home. At least here no one could get me.
That sounded nice.
I could use a little nice in my life because even when I tried it all went to shit and I was really, really tired of that. But for now, at least I could sleep there and then figure out what the fuck I was going to do next because right then I didn’t have a damn clue.
Well, besides I didn’t want to be a comitissa. I was very sure of that.
The End
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Erin
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About the Author
Erin is a Midwest girl at heart, born a Chicagoan with the mouth to prove it, a loyal Cubs fan,
but still a die-hard Green Bay Packers gal who cheers for her alma mater, the Illini from Augusta, Georgia, where she lives. She has always been interested in the darker aspects of life and mythologies—especially vampires, shifters, the occult, and anything paranormal.
To date, she has published over 100 paranormal books in different genres with dedicated readers who await each release to her numerous series under any of the three Flynn names she writes under.
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