Scarlett’s POV-
The moment I closed the gateway behind the faes and sprites, I could not contain the smirk that had been threatening to spill out while they were here. Birsha and Damien stepped closer to me, wrapping their arms around me. Arnoldo chuckled, as everyone on the councils stepped closer to us. “Something funny, Arnoldo?”
“You never fail to impress, Queen Scarlett. You left those faes stunned. The sprites, though, were harder to read,” Arnoldo replied.
It was now my turn to chuckle, “Did any of you hear what Harlan said to me, before they left through the gateway?”
“Damien and I did, but neither of us could make sense of what he said,” Birsha responded, as everyone else shook their heads.
I smiled, “Sprites are so used to hiding their actions from the faes, they frequent
