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“I’m glad you asked that.” Kyan places his hand on top of my head while holding the sphere in one hand.
I shove his hand away from me. “What are you doing?”
“I’m trying to connect you with your granddaughter. You need to calm her down and make her see reason. Only she can end the trials, but she’s refusing to do what needs to be done. No one seems to be able to get through to her, but maybe you can.”
“I don’t understand. What is she refusing to do? Ivy isn’t even supposed to be a part of the trials. She’s half fae. Humanity is supposed to decide their own fate.”
“There was a slight hiccup. Now she’s the one being tested, and she’s failing miserably. You need to help her. You’re Earth 104’s last hope.”
I stare at the sphere and its crack. If I wait much longer, there may not be any Earth 104 to save.
“Send me in,” I say, closing my eyes.
Kyan places his hand on my head again.
“You will only appear to Ivy with what I’m about to do, but she’s the one who needs to hear you. Are you ready?”
“Yes. Get on with it,” I say impatiently. I couldn’t care less if Kyan’s feelings are hurt by my attitude toward him, all I care about is my family.
“Save her from herself,” he says. “I fear if you don’t, all will be lost.”
My scalp begins to tingle where Kyan’s hand lay. Everything around me begins to fade away as I return to Earth 104 to save my family.
Chapter 8
(Ivy’s Point of View)
Iknow exactly when the twilight hour arrives the next morning because I’m rudely awakened by Damon and Simon shouting at one another.
“You need to take your son back to Midnight. He’s not safe here,” Damon yells.
I open my eyes but remain motionless as I watch the two kings face off against each other.
Simon has Tripp cradled in one arm while using his other hand to pet his son between the ears. Oblivious to the fact he’s the reason for the argument, Tripp happily wags his tail as he stares at Damon.
“I will decide what happens to my son. Don’t stand there and attempt to lecture me about what a father should do. From what I recall, you don’t have any children yet. So keep your damn mouth shut.”
Boris starts to laugh heartily. He sits with Margaret and Oliver by their campfire as the trio watches the show the two kings are entertaining everyone with.
“Neither of you know the first thing about raising a child.” Boris shakes his head at the two of them. “And I’m beginning to wonder if either of you understand what it means to be king.”
“Shut your mouth, old man,” Simon sneers, giving Boris a look of disgust that ignites my anger. “None of this concerns you.”
I throw my blanket off and quickly get to my feet.
“Don’t you dare talk to him like that again,” I tell Simon, drawing the attention of everyone who is awake. “If you weren’t so mule headed, you would stow away your pride for a second and listen to what he has to say. Boris is the best father anyone could ever have, and he certainly knows more about being a parent than you do.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I glimpse Jack. He’s watching me with an intenseness that makes me uncomfortable. I have no idea if what I just said about Boris hurts him in some way, but I really don’t care. He gave up the right to call himself my father the moment he decided to sit and rot inside his prison cell.
Silence surrounds us until Boris clears his throat and stands.
“Thank you, poppet, I appreciate you saying that,” he says before turning his attention to Simon and Damon. “I agree with Damon that the boy should probably be returned home.”
“See,” Damon says, looking confident his position on the subject was the right one.
“But,” Boris says, bursting Damon’s bubble of confidence, “finding the cure as fast as we can is our top priority. We’re not far from where Margaret saw the fae who had the cure. I say we go there first. If he isn’t there and if Vamir can’t direct us to a new location where the fae may be, then we should all return home. As they say, there’s safety in numbers and we have few enough of those as it is. Splitting up isn’t really an option.”
“I agree with Boris,” Margaret says, never one to shy away from giving her opinion. “Although taking Tripp back home would be the ideal thing to do, we should all stay together for safety’s sake. Hopefully, we’ll all be returning home in another day or two.”
