Chapter 42: Whitney a Fairy?

"A fairy. You know, those supposedly mythical woodland creatures."

Kel didn't know what was funnier, Deke thinking Whitney was a fairy or him saying "mythical woodland creatures." "What are you talking about?"

Deke sighed. "I guess our parents forgot to tell us something about being a gargoyle."

Kel stopped to give him his full attention. Maybe he could move this conversation along if he did. There were kids in danger. One of whom he knew well. "Go ahead."

"A long time ago, the fairies and the gargoyles made a treaty. The gargoyles would protect the fairies from goblins."

Sounded like a fairy tale, but Kel was a gargoyle so he shouldn't judge. "Go on."

"There were elite gargoyles assigned to one single fairy. That fairy is our mate. The person we are destined to be with," Kel said.

"Mate? What does this history lesson have to do with Maggie?"

"Well, Whitney is my fairy. The treaty has never been revoked. It is still alive today, it's just been lost in time. Until we, as gargoyles, fin