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The concubine’s boudoir no longer connected to the king’s

The tiny fla on the air around us abruptly went out, leaving cold, opaque crystals that clattered to the floor, aer s whiff of decay

The residue of the concubine vanished from the bed

The fire in the hearth died

The chamber was just a chamber, void of all trace of the opulent beauty, passion, and sensuality that had saturated it

Although I had no idea what had transpired between the legendary lovers, I knehat these events signified: the epic love affair between the Unseelie King and his concubine was over

Inexpressible sorrow filledin their immortal love I’d once lived their passion in these rooms, and the depth of their coly eternal as the Unseelie King himself Their tortured affair had been wild and ro me onder and no s love Minus the tortured part

I frowned, not liking the i had shut the door and turned out the lights The lights he’d kept burning for hundreds of thousands of years If the king no longer cared for the boudoir to exist as perpetual testaer cared And his interest in huly whiht have helped me learn to use the powers she’d transferred to me had just stalked out and slaure out what their departures

Our world was dying

Months, at best, the concubine had said

And ere on our own

MAC

The others began to bicker

Cruce started it No surprise there

Jada waswe take further measures to secure the Sinsar Dubh in the chahty diatribe about how no one was going anywhere until MacKayla "got her human ass over here," put her hands on his chest and passed the True Magic of the Fae race to the rightful heir--the only Fae in the room, thereby entitled, no, owed…blah blah blah