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“Hello?” I called when I reached the throne room. “Anybody?”
Dex appeared from a side room.
“Ellie,” he said. “You’re here.”
“Where else was I supposed to be?” I asked. “I couldn’t be anywhere else, thanks to Nylah’s spell.”
Dex’s face remained unchanged. I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
“Where’s Ren?” I asked. “What happened with the fight?”
He hesitated before he chose his words carefully.
“The fight wasn’t what it should have been. Ren was injured.”
“What?” My stomach dropped to my shoes. “How badly is he hurt? Is he okay?”
“The healers are tending to him,” Dex said.
That didn’t sound good.
“What happened?”
He shook his head. “Dark magic isn’t to be trifled with.”
“But he’s powerful,” I countered. “Ren is one of the most powerful Fae ever to live, right? Isn’t that what everyone says?”
“He’s powerful, all right,” Dex said. “But the dark magic…” He trailed off.
I stormed past him and down the hallway that led to the King’s wing. I’d never been here, but I knew where it was.
When Nylah appeared in front of me, she looked panicked for a moment.
“Ellie,” she said.
“You trapped me in my room, and then I’m the last to find out he’s hurt?” I demanded. “I want to see him.”
“He’s with the healer, now,” she said, shaking her head.
“You locked me up like a child last night,” I replied. “You couldn’t even talk to me and trust that I could help.”
“It was for your own safety,” she insisted. “It’s what Ren ordered.”
“And you think he was right?”
“We’re friends, Ellie, but he’s still my king. I can’t just tell him no. He wanted to protect you. You should see it as a good thing.”
Maybe she was right. But I struggled to see it that way when they’d kept me from the action for being toofragile, and then finding out like this that Ren had been hurt.
“I need to see him,” I said in a softer voice. “Please. If I had been there, maybe he wouldn’t have gotten hurt.”
“Or you would have gotten hurt, too,” Nylah said.
I shook my head. I didn’t care. What if I could have changed things for him?
“It’s bad, isn’t it?” I asked dully. “If you won’t let me see him.”
I looked into Nylah’s golden eyes, and they shimmered with unshed tears.
