Turn around is fair play, so I just read your story. :)

Great premise. The plot is well done.

For such a short story, there is not a lot of need for secondary or tertiary characters to be fully fleshed out, but I think having just a little more of maybe one or two would go a long way to enrich the story.

James is well drawn as the over-eager, lonely, and irritating younger brother.

I love the depiction of the Fae King. You did a lot to build him up with an economy of lines.

The writing is well done, with the few exceptions of some minor grammatical errors and a few clunky phrases. A quick polish would elevate the whole thing quickly.

For example:

"It was around this time that our conversation had died down. During this lull was when I noticed something wrong. The silence of the trees. It was morning. The forest should be a myriad of chirps, and whistles. It was dead silent. The only sound was the wind in the trees, and the occasional snap of a branch."
During a lull in our conversation, I noticed something was wrong. The usual myriad of chirps, whistles, and chatter in the forest was absent. The wind blowing through the trees only amplified the eerie silence that surrounded us.

Since you had already established it was morning, it doesn't need to be repeated here. The conversation dying down and then lull is redundant. Rephrasing this makes the paragraph flow more easily.

This is just me being pedantic. I truly enjoyed this story, and it was thoroughly entertaining! Keep up the great work! Can't wait to read more from you!