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“It is a dream of a party, isn’t it?” Luka asked.
“Don’t try to play me,” she said. “I know you can enter dreams but I have no idea how you got in. If this is a dream, I’m still in that shit hole prison. And you want something from me.”
“I need to know about the book you gave me,” I said, dropping all pretense.
She smiled. “So you figured it out, did you? Took you long enough.”
“I didn’t figure anything out,” I said. “I locked it up. There’s a shadow fae trying to take it from me.”
She walked away from the table and moved close to me. “Are you sure?”
“I’m sure,” I said.
She shook her head. “I was afraid of that.”
“Spill, Professor,” I said. “We don’t have much time and he’s already tried to kill at least one student.”
“That book is ancient dark magic, but it only works in Faerie,” she said. “I stole it when I came here so I could destroy it. Turns out, it’s indestructible. But it’s magic is useless in your realm. As long as it’s here, it’s nothing but a book. If it gets back to the other realm, though, you can kiss both our realms goodbye.”
“So what do I do?” I asked. “I can’t let him have it.”
“It’s not my problem, is it?” she asked. “I’m in prison.”
“You owe me,” I said.
“I don’t owe you anything,” she said. “I’m repaying any debt I might have owed you in this cell. My magic is gone. Drained completely and they feed us gruel. I haven’t seen the sun since I arrived.”
I had to admit, I felt a little bad. But then again, she did try to kill me. “You brought that on yourself.”
“If you grew up in Faerie and you got trapped here, you’d understand,” she said. “I don’t regret anything.”
“Where’d the shadow fae come from?” Luka asked.
Professor Halifax shrugged. “He must have snuck in when we had the portal open.”
“It was surrounded by monsters,” I said.
“Shadow fae are not like other fae,” she said. “They can become the shadows, move with them, control them. He could have come through and none of us would have noticed.”
“How did he know to look for the book here?” Luka asked.
I glared at Professor Halifax. It was a good question. “Why did he come through that portal?”
“I don’t have to tell you all this,” she said.
“Please,” I said. “I know you won’t help us directly but you could at least level the playing field. We’ve got nothing.”
She pursed her lips and looked like she was considering saying something.
“Come on,” Luka said. “What can you give us?”
“Fine,” she said. “It might be my mate. He knew I took the book and he might have sensed me through the portal.”
“Is that why you were trying to get back?” I asked. My stomach tightened. What would I do to get back to my mates? I couldn’t even imagine being away from them for more than a day, let alone years. That must have been torture for her.
“I did what I had to do and now question time is over,” she said.
“Wait,” I said.
