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“How many times, Lucas?”
He shrugs. “It's not a dangerous place, it's quiet there, they leave me alone when I'm there,” Lucas tells me.
“I don't like the feel of this, Kyan,” Kaif murmurs in my head. “When I came back, I was back in the room with Corina. She said my voice sounded funny, but I didn't know how I got back,” he tells me.
“But you know how to open the portals now?” I ask him, and he chews his lip before he finally nods.
“Can you take me to where you go?” I ask him and his eyes widen in surprise.
“You want me to show you?” he asks, and I nod.
“I need to know,” I tell him.
“But what if I show you, and you don't let me go back?” he worries.
“If that is the case, that means it's not safe, but I will speak with Papa, and we'll make the ghosts leave you alone,” I tell him.
“Leave him alone, I am casting their translucent asses back to the shadow realm!” Kaif snaps in my head.
ChapterForty-Nine
Kyan
“So, can you please show me?” I ask him.
Lucas looks at me hesitantly. “You're really not mad?” he asks.
“I'm disappointed you didn't tell me, but I am not mad,” I assure him when the door opens up and Eziah steps in. “Temperance?” I ask him.
“With my father,” he says, staring at Lucas curiously. Lucas, however, tugs on my shirt.
“He can't come with us. I'm unsure if he can cross unless Kaif comes in his form,” Lucas whispers to me—my brows furrow.
“The shadow realm?” I ask Lucas. He shrugs, so I know he has no idea where he is going.
“He'll be fine. Kaif won't let him get hurt. He'll come forward. He doesn't need me to shift,” I remind him. Lucas nods, and I stand up when Eziah gives me a look as if to ask what is happening.
“Come here,” I wave him forward. I grab his hand.
“Woah, sorry buddy, I'm taken. My sister will skin us both alive if you decide to jump the fence.”
I growl at him as he jerks his hand out of mine as if I just molested him.
“Well, by all means, if you want to step inside my son's portal, being all sunshine and rainbows, shining your beacon light through the darkness, go for it,” I tell him. Eziah ponders my words and looks at Lucas before he snatches my hand.
“So soft, what sort of hand cream do you use?” he snickers.
“Your blood if you don't shut up,” I tell him when Lucas suddenly walks toward the pantry. I watch as he opens the door, but I see nothing out of the ordinary.
“Are you coming?” he asks, looking at us; I glance at Eziah.
“Do you see a portal?” I ask him.
“I see baked beans, some spam, oh Oreos,” he chuckles as we hesitantly step forward, yet as we near it, I feel a draft. “I never saw him use magic,” Eziah whispers. “But I can feel it.”
“Me too,” I tell him when suddenly Lucas steps inside the pantry and disappears. I lurch forward to grab him when I am suddenly sucked into the portal's vortex. Kaif shoves forward instantly when we hit the hard ground.
“Well, clearly you haven't figured out walking through, falling though, that you've mastered,” he groans out.
