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I was stretched out on the Chesterfield in front of a hissing gas fire, listening to the rain patter against the s of the store, indulging ot up to tackle ould surely be another eventful, fascinating day

Tomorroas Halloween--and Barrons’s birthday--and the sidhe-seers were having a huge party out at the abbey

Dani had moved back into the fortress with Shaza electric with energy and intellect, traveling the slipstreaathering yet lobal order

The black holes had vanished fro had awakened life in even the Shade-devastated Dark Zones Although it was late fall, ere having a rainy spring and I suspected our seasons ht be completely out of balance for a few years

Deep in the earth, connected to the core by the True Magic, I felt a new, subtle ic in the planet Our world was alive in ways it hadn’t been for hundreds of thousands of years

Dublin was bustling again, each day we reclai to as close to norain

The unique Fae hues still stained our world, and, until I figured out how to either sing the walls back up between the realms or unearth the power of our court and move it to a new planet, they would continue to do so

What to do with e ofone

My parents had settled in Dublin with no intention of ever returning to Georgia

We’d lost and gained things, we’d grieved and celebrated The future was a reatest concerns were for Dani Getting Shazauish I’d been so worried ht turn her back into Jada But she wasn’t fully Dani anymore either, the way she had been when Dancer was alive There was a coolness to her diction, a distance in her gaze that I suspected ood and rich and there was no other place I’d rather be

I rolled over onto , five stories aboveaware of the distantfor the hundredth time what it was Then, with a snort, I invited the ele scaffold, kicked up off the sofa and climbed the handy ladder on the side There were quite a few things about being the Fae queen I didn’t at allI wasn’t yet cos higher and higher, the scene etched into the plaster, layered with paint and gold flakes and crystals, becaasped

I stretched out on the platfor the truth seep into me in a way I could never have allohen I first arrived in Dublin

Ito understand how it eludedwhen it was so clearly detailed, in extraordinary Fae-kissed colors I’d finally found the cause for the spatial distortion inmirror in the scene painted above my head was an open Silver, one of the most powerful ever created, and I was pretty sure I knehere it went

Then the air around ed and my body fired on all pistons like it always does whenever Jericho Barrons is near

He topped the scaffolding and stretched out on his back beside aze

I knew him intimately noho he had once been, who he was, and who he was beco I loved each incarnation and never wanted to be without hi

Are you seeing?

I aeant of life, and as with any stage production, while thecan be as varied as the individual, there were a limited number of roles