The prompt this week is Railing.

I pulled out an old favorite. My shorty-short paranormal romance, Leap.

As a refresher, Jayde is a “Player”. A rare and unique psychic that sees the future of each individual person as strings like a violin’s, that she can “play” and change if she wants or needs to.

Magnar is a “Keeper” a sort of magical lawmaker for all creatures, they are protectors and enforcers.  They are usually immune to most magics and unreadable by psychics, empaths, etc…but in the course of the story Jayde and Magnar discovered that they have a unique bond that supercedes the general rule that Keepers and creatures cannot mix.

This short scene is from my epilogue of sorts, and leaves the door open for the possible (probable?) series that might be born out of this.

 

Jayde leaned on the railing, her eyes closed and magic at a minimum. With her powers turned down she could focus on the normal, everyday hum of activity around her. Tourists gasped at the sightof the falls, local grumbled about tourists, the powerful thunder of the water pouring over the edge into the pool below.

They’d spent too much time at Niagara. Afterglow and the realization of their destiny as mates despite their disparate roles in the creature world had kept her and Magnar snug in his private cave beneath the powerful force that was the Canadian falls.

Footsteps passed to the right and left, but her ears picked up one set carrying on a steady beat. The hum of her body was beyond magic as he drew near. She smiled as he pressed his body against hers. “Did you get everything?”

“Your violin is safe, nestled near my guitar at our next destination.” His voice strummed her nerves as his breath brushed her ear. “Just as you are safe near me.”

She curved back against him, to make sure her ass brushed him seductively. “I’m safe until you’re distracted.”

“Even then,” he whispered. “I protect you more fiercely.”

“Where to next?”

“New Orleans.” He wrapped his arm around her waist. “We’ll stay in populated areas until we’re sure of the plan, but even there we’ll have trouble.”

“I’m ready for battle. Always have been. The question is, are you ready to fight what you didn’t know was the enemy?”

“I don’t like that you think it’s a Keeper.” His arm tensed around her waist, the seductive note in his voice hardened into anger. “I hate rules, but even I would never betray the rule that we are here for creatures’ protection. Not their destruction.”

“It only makes sense. They’re masked to me. With the exception of you, all Keepers are but mere shadows to my senses.” She sighed when a shift of the wind brought the cool mist of the falls toward them.

“Can you tell what’s ahead?”

“I know our lives will be in danger.”

His warm chuckle carried through her body. “I could have told you that.”

“We will have moments of joy.”

“I like that.”

“But beyond that. The future is too uncertain. Everything changes, including our future.” She laced her fingers through his.

“As long as you have my back in battle.”

“And you have mine.”

“I’ll take the unknown.”

 

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