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Sirus’s grin vanished. “Heliai was awake?”
“Temporarily.”
Dove jumped out of her playhouse again and giggled when a strong breeze lifted her before she could reach the ground. It carried her right to Sirus.
He hugged her, his forehead wrinkling when he looked back at me.
Zoran extricated himself from the playhouse too, and strode across the room, directly to me.
His arm went around my waist, and he pulled me flush against his side.
Interest filled Sirus’s gaze as he looked at the place we were connected, and then looked at Zoran.
“Can you give us a few minutes, Dissiri?” the wind king asked Dove.
She nodded, planting a kiss on his cheek before walking back to her playhouse.
“What happened?” Sirus asked Zoran, frowning. “You should’ve come for us. We could’ve helped with Heliai.”
Zoran released me, signing back, “This isn’t the first time we’ve had to put Heliai back to sleep. The Aboa is my people’s charge, and we had complete control.”
I thought that was a bit of a stretch, but figured those were just the kinds of stretches that the kings would all make when it came to situations like that. There was a reason they’d ended up insane, after all, and it wasn’t because they wereoverprepared. Sometimes, their insane strength made them think they were more immortal than they really were.
Then again, if the king wasn’t confident, why would his people ever believe in him?
“It never hurts to have help,” Sirus said, his frown deepening.
“Hence the reason we came here. Crest has left my kingdom—or is at least avoiding the water in it completely. Can you check your lands, to see if he’s here?”
Sirus dipped his head in a nod. “It’ll take a few hours.”
“No problem,” Zoran signed. “We’re going to ask Quake and Flame to do the same, and then we’ll return.”
“Of course,” Sirus agreed. He called out to Dove, “Flood and Ayla are leaving,”
“Bye!” she called out from her playhouse, sticking her head out to look at us again. Her voice sounded more distant than it had been a few minutes earlier, and her gaze did too. I wondered if talking about Heliai had scared her, or if having so much going on was overwhelming.
“We need to do another girls’ night soon,” Harper told me, flashing me a quick smile. “We have a lot to catch up on.”
“That would be fun,” I agreed.
“Congratulations, to both of you,” Sirus said, pulling Harper a bit closer.
Zoran nodded, tugged me into his arms, and transported us away.
My head tilted backas I looked up at a massive stone castle, littered with huge windows. The sun shone down on it, and in the distance, I could see the gorgeous sand dunes that spread across much of the earth fae’s land.
“I assume this is Quake and Margo’s place?” I asked, surprised by the size of it.
Our castle seemed tiny in comparison to both the wind and earth king’s. I’d never seen Flame’s from the outside, but something told me it was equally massive.
Zoran squeezed my hand twice.
Yes.
“Why is your castle so much smaller?” I whispered to him. The question almost sounded like an insult, and I winced a little, but he grinned.
Booming laughter met my ears as one of the castle’s doors opened, and when I looked over, I found Quake and Margo standing in the doorway. He had a hand on her hip, with her positioned in front of him, and they were both grinning.
