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I look to the trunk sitting in the far corner.
After crawling over to it, I lift the lid and rummage around her belongings. I carelessly help myself, stuffing my pockets with a pouch full of the blackout powder and some candles, and I stick a sheathed dagger in my boot.
Unsatisfied with my loot, I keep digging because I’m searching for something specific.
When the warm light above me glints off the silver flask, the triumph of my discovery gives me a little boost of energy.
As I pick up the container, I listen to the glorious sound of liquid sloshing around inside. It’s almost completely full.
This is the good stuff. The most forbidden substance among the fae.
Glow. It’s a highly concentrated form of Day Realm water, and it amplifies fae power when ingested.
If I were to open the cap and sniff, I would smell nothing. If I were to drink the contents, I would just taste plain water.
Seems innocent enough, but I’ve personally experienced what it can do.
I learned my lesson the hard way when the Empath tricked me into drinking it. After robbing me of the hate built up inside me, she’d tempted me with the beverage, letting me believe it was regular water. I was disoriented and so fucking thirsty, and she’d taken advantage of that.
I shiver when I remember how guzzling the Glow sent my power into an uncontrollable tailspin. Yes, I greedily drank it all, but I was unaware of any reason to go slow.
Soon after finishing the last drop, I realized my error when I unwillingly formed vortex after vortex. Just thinking of a place hurled me there, and I traveled across planes and broke through barriers I didn’t even know about.
Most disturbingly, I traveled back in time.
Funnily enough, it was the maple farm that I went to first, going back to sometime in the 1920s. I don’t know why I thought of that time and location before anywhere else. Perhaps because I knew a deal was uncompleted there, and it felt unfinished.
I consider putting a drop of Glow on my tongue—just a tiny bit.
With how drained I currently am, I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it back to the Earth realm without assistance.
Then again, using the Glow is a risk. I don’t have enough experience with it to know how much is too much, and I could end up hopping around a bunch of places without meaning to.
Deciding against the idea, I slip the flask into the back pocket of my jeans.
I should save it for an emergency. I’ll just have to return to Hannah the old-fashioned way.
Mustering every bit of strength I have left, I close my eyes, picture the maple farm, and mentally beg the air behind me to move. The suction begins slowly, and it takes a few minutes to get going, but it works.
Usually, I’d get yanked in by the force, but this vortex needs some help. Standing on shaky legs, I fall into the swirl.
Instead of chaotic spinning, I feel like I’m submerged in water, my limbs weightless and suspended in the air as I fall in slow motion.
I try to picture the machine shed where Hannah’s sleeping, but I don’t have the focus to pinpoint my destination.
Damn it. I’m too drained. I should’ve consumed the Glow.
The atmosphere changes gradually, going from dry and dusty to cool and crisp. Suddenly, everything speeds up, and I land hard, face-down on a bed of greenery.
Even before I’ve looked around, I can tell I ended up in the wildflower field. I didn’t get close enough to Hannah.
I have to get back to her, but my body doesn’t want to cooperate. With a lot of effort, I manage to roll to my back.
Eyelids heavy, I blink at the moon and stars above me. There’s something comforting about knowing Hannah and I are under the same sky, but I still need to be with her.
My muscles tremble as I push myself up. Once I’m standing, I stagger.
Struggling desperately to put one foot in front of the other, I go about three steps before my limbs give out.
