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Warmth—was I cold before?
No, I hadn’t felt anything. But my muscles had relaxed and trembled. And I was now warm. My mind was spinning. At least the rest of me was standing still.
And I wasn’t shivering.
I was warm.
That warmth…I know that warmth.
I whipped my head to the side—except that I didn’t move at all but somehow could still see what was alongside of me. Not what. Who.
Arran.
He could see me, too. Was looking at me with such intensity. I watched his eyes flash through all the frustrations I had over the past few minutes—trying to move, failing, realizing he could see but not feel, all of it.
His dark eyes flickered—he was trying to use the bond to communicate with me.
I waited.
Nothing.
Panic seized in my chest.
No. No. No. No. Not the mating bond—
But there it was, in my chest, whole as ever. I was able to find it, to sense it. The golden thread that stretched from my heart to Arran’s.
My mate’s eyes softened as well. He’d found it, made the same conclusions. We couldn’t communicate, but we were tethered together still.
Relief washed through me.
I didn’t have time to consider the irony.
This… vision? Dream? Whatever it was that priestess had conjured up with her crystals and tinctures and magic, it wouldn’t last forever. I’d asked to see Avalon—so this must be it.
I recognized it.
The soft green grass, the unnaturally rhythmic kiss of the waves against the crystalline sand. The willows that draped gracefully on each side of the clearing, framing the isle in the distance, just visible through the mists.
I’d seen it before.
When I fell through the rifts for the first time, torn apart and reassembled within the void… I’d come to this unknown shore. Except it wasn’t entirely foreign—it was Avalon.
Of course, it was.
Some instinct had brought met here even before I understood the source of my power or its meaning. Another confirmation—if I needed one—that the Void Prophecy was true, the darkness was real, the Ethereal Prophecy must be genuine, and that the answers I sought waited in Avalon.
What else awaited us?
I lifted my eyes to the distant shore. The last time, there had been a strange compulsion acting on all of my senses. Now, I was without a body. Or at least, without a functioning one. I couldn’t walk closer to the edge of the lake or lift my hand in greeting. I could choose where to look—and there was only one place that drew my eyes.
Across the water, on the edge of the island.
The same female stood.
The Lady of the Lake.
The words reverberated in my mind. How did I know that?
