The Seven Realms

Keira of Earth.

In all honesty Keira hadn't yet had the time to process the fact that she was now engaged sure, she was young she had to admit, twenty one, but with all that had happened within the last year, she knew there was no one she'd rather be with. At the same time, she didn't know if she was actually ready, this commitment, was bigger than marriage, in her world, you married and then there was just a piece of paper to officialise it, in Al's world, it meant she would be queen and Keira wasn't sure if that's what she really wanted, to be queen, means she would hold a whole world on her shoulders, that is pressure she wasn't ready for.

"Okay, so, Keira you've never actually seen a Fae wedding have you?" Lucas asked, they had been referring to each other in human names to get used to it, even though Al's brothers had gone home, "no, are they any different to human weddings?" "Any different? Bloody hell there's nothing similar about them" "right, well brother, care to explain to our sister then" "fine, a Fae wedding takes place by the routes of the great tree,

the great tree, how you haven't see it, it's sacred ground for every kind, it's the one thing we all respect" "wow, so it's important then?" "Bloody hell, Okay, so basically it's the source of all the realms power, there's no Faerie dust, but this tree has routes in all seven Realms, it's the reason we have portals into each realm as much as we used to hate each other that tree kept us connected" "wow okay, so maybe important was an understatement" "so anyway, Faeries, fly to the base of this tree and the oldest one of their kind, the elder Faerie, it used to be the King or Queen but well things have changed, each realm sends a representative, they all bring the goblets of the realms each one is Made to represent their race or realm, yours is well, this is where its complicated, see many years ago when the first war ended and this goblets were made, the first time they were shown, and the heads of the realms sat together, My wonderful father, he says sarcastically, was greedy, he poisoned one, killing the Queen of the elves, that's why Silas, again I apologise on behalf of all dragons, your father hates every other kind"

"I thank you for your apology, Lucas, you are not your father, us elves recognise that, and we forgive any wrong your father did, we are allies, friends" "thank you, As I was saying my father, didn't only poison the Elf's Queen, in killing a representative of the Realm, the tree was furious, sending the cups far away, in order for any union, wedding not the cups or goblets have to be collected and reassembled" "great" "what if we have a human wedding" they all faced Allister, "then those goblets can stay lost" "Okay, look, those cups help keep balance, why do you think we keep having wars and feuds and deaths? Because we angered the balance, our ancestors were greedy and thieves, mostly mine, but it's in our bloody, anyway, no this is our world and it is our job to fix it" they all agreed that night, that their quest, the one they would share until it was finished, was to find the goblets, and fix the mess, so their world wouldn't suffer, this was their world their time.