Elf Saga: Bloodlines (Part 1: Curse of the Jaguar) Read Online Free Page B

wherever they are. Somewhere warm, probably.” She quickly
makes the bed and fetches the steaming cup of green slime.
    “So it’s gone too.” I rub my eyes. “Perfect.
That’s just perfect.” I want to flip a table over and smash the
entire windmill to the ground, but I’m pretty sure that won’t help.
Much.
    “What’s wrong?” She comes toward me. “It’s
just a little honeymoon. Their eighth or ninth one, I think. Don’t
your parents do that sort of thing?”
    I glance at her and then away. “My parents
split up when I was little. It ended… badly. But it’s nice that
your mom and dad are still together.”
    “Oh, I’m so sorry.” She pets my arm and
offers me the tea again.
    I shake my head. “I don’t suppose we could
grill up a little steak maybe? Or lamb chops, with a little pepper
and butter?”
    “Sorry.” She shrugs apologetically. “I’m
vegan.”
    Of course she is. I rub my eyes.
    She starts drinking the tea herself. “And I
don’t have a dad, by the way.”
    “Huh?”
    “Two moms. Big Mom and Little Mom. But don’t
tell them that I said that! I don’t think they’d like it if they
knew I called them that in my head.”
    “You have two moms?” I stare at her.
“Seriously? How does that even work?”
    “Uhm. I don’t know. It seems to work really
well. Do people not have two moms where you come from?”
    I shrug. “It’s two more than I have.” Damn
it. Why would I even say that? I don’t want any pity from her. “So,
listen, Rajani, I’m sort of in the middle of dealing with
something, and I need to see Nadira. Like, yesterday. It’s really
important. And urgent.”
    “Well, I’m really sorry, but I don’t even
know where she is, or when she’ll be back.” Rajani pouts at me with
her great big puppy dog eyes.
    I slump into a chair and stare at the mess of
amber rods and little steel hammers and wire coils on the table in
front of me. I bury my face in my hands and make a loud, stupid
sighing noise, trying to blow out all the anger before it gives me
a heart attack.
    “Why don’t you tell me what’s going on?”
Rajani sits down next to me. “Maybe we can work something out? I
bet I can help if you tell me about it.”
    I lean back and stare at her, this happy
little girl with her happy little world with two mothers and her
own personal entourage of faeries. “Well, do you know where the
lost city of Yas Yagaroth is?”
    “Sorry, no. Sounds familiar… but no.”
    “Then unless you happen to know where I can
find a crystal ship without waiting for your moms to come home,
then no, you can’t help me.” I rub my eyes and look away again.
    “Well, actually… technically… I do.”
    I look at her sharply. “Do what?”
    “I do know where you can find another crystal
ship.” She smiles nervously, then looks away, then looks back at
me, biting her lip. “Okay, so here’s the thing. When I was sixteen,
Little Mom thought I was old enough to drive, so she gave me her
old ship and she tried to teach me to fly it, but I was really bad.
I mean really, really bad. And about a month after I got it I… sort
of… crashed it.”
    I blink. “You crashed a flying crystal ship?
Near here?”
    “Yeah.”
    “And it’s still there?”
    “Well, yeah. Big Mom was super pissed. I
mean, they fought about it for like… ten whole minutes. It was
epically awful.”
    Ten whole minutes? Poor baby!
    “And in the end, they said that when I wanted
to fly again, I would have to go down there and get the ship out
myself,” Rajani says. “And the funny thing is, in all this time,
I’ve never really wanted to fly, so I never bothered to go get it.
I mean, I’ve visited a bunch of countries with my moms, and I just
really like being here, so I figured, why bother? You know?”
    I narrow my eyes at her. “So where is your
ship now, exactly?”
    “The, uh, ravine.” She bites her lip again.
“I kind of crashed it in the worst possible place. A few feet to
the left and it