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We were sent hovering back toward the area we had landed first and dropped onto the grass I cast my eyes around A river flowed a few feet away from us, and a waterfall thundered about five hundred enized this river in my sleep It was the river that surrounded the main city of The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary

I could barely believe that I was back here Brisalia stood up, Csilla close behind her as they approached us

"I’ at y "You were loyal to my sister for so s"

"What?" Ibrahim spat

No matter how much Ibrahim and I tried to break out of the spell Brisalia had us under, we couldn’t She was of the line of the Ageless, and against her and her daughter’s powers cos disappeared, and this ti in a large bedroom Its walls were made of stark white marble, as were the floors It was oval, and there was a beautifully carved four-poster bed in the center Light satin curtains covering the open balcony doors blew in the breeze There was a scent of flowers

"I’h It used to be yours, after all"

The titches vanished before we could utter another word

I stared at Ibrahim He still looked in a state of shock as he looked around the room We both hurried over to the open balcony and atteain But as we tried to leave the balcony, we hit an invisible wall We rushed back into the rooh the main entrance, down a set of wide marble stairs and tried to exit out the door While the front door opened, we couldn’t walk further than the end of the porch

Ibrahim and I assaulted the shield with curse after curse, but nothing we could do da on rabbed my hand and led me back into the house As we stood in the center of the hall, we both looked at each other, panting

"What the hell is this?" I blurted out It had all happened so fast, I had hardly caught up with the fact that it was real

We were no longer on earth We were back in The Sanctuary The realm of the witches My home And Ibrahim’s

The last time I’d spent a brief spell here had been to escape The Shade when Kiev had burnt it doith the help of the other children of the Elders