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Chapter 1

A dream, just a dream hat a piece of my mind told me, but the terror and pain ‘just a drea Yet, I couldn’t escape it

The neth of the pale green ferns tickled h low lying bushes, a giggle treers around the vines clih the aame The sound of his footsteps reached my ears a split second before he ran around the side of a led ethe laughter as I watched his spread wide

"Lark, I can’t find you Are you cheating again?"

Lips claspot I would never cheat I was a king’s daughter, after all Even though I was not a legitimate heir, I was still a princess At least, inwas not allowed

But then I saw the curl of a laugh on Cactus’s lips as he spun in a circle, looking for me

"Lark?" He put his hands on his skinny hips, and blew out a long, noisy sigh "Fine, you win Again You’re just too good at this"

I curled entle pulse of power through the ground, and into the soles of Cactus’s feet He turned tohere I hid, a s we’d just learned, how to reach out to each other through the earth ere close to each other

I sat up and waved at hi off my shoulders "Over here, silly loser"

Groaning, he troreen-eyed, he was as much an anomaly in the Rim--our home here in the Redwoods--as I ith reen We’d found each other in the early su was deep on the woods, and we’d been inseparable ever since

"Do you want to hide now?" I patted the spot beside e so he could sit