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He went still again, wings of unease unfurling in the pit of his all-too-human stomach

By Danu, Aoibheal wouldn’t! His dark eyes narrowed to slits

Would she?

Jaw clenched, he tried again And again his hand slipped through Chloe Zanders’s body

Christ, she had! The bitch!

Not only had the queen made him human, she had cursed him with the threefold power of the féth fiada!

Adaly The féth fiada was the enchant humans undetected A Tuatha Dé customarily invoked but one facet of the potent, triumvirate spell—invisibility But it could also render its subject impossible for humans to hear and feel as well The féth fiada was a useful tool if one wished to meddle unobserved

But if cursed with it permanently? If unable to escape it?

That thought was too abhorrent to entertain

He closed his eyes and delved into his mind to sift time/place and return to the Fae Isle of Morar He didn’t care who the queen was currently entertaining in her Royal Bower; she would undo this now

Nothing happened He remained precisely where he was

He tried again

There was no swift sensation of weightlessness, no sudden rush of that heady freedo dimensions

He opened his eyes Still in the stone chamber

A snarl curved his lips Human, cursed, and powerless? Barred fro dark hair froht, Aoibheal, you’ve e me back now”

There was no response Nothing but the sound of the wo hollowly in the chill stone chamber

“Aoibheal, did you hear et it’ Now restore me”