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“And you need to step back”

“Cora, I’ll step back when you proet here?” I snapped

“I’ve no idea”

“What happened?” I asked, forcing ainst his chest, to no avail so I gave up and went on “The last thing I re consciousness”

He nodded “You did I picked you up, carried you to our rooms Perdita and the wo and saw your fall Algernon was there as well and I sent hiot you ice for a bu you in ernon andI knew, your entire body was surrounded by a blue mist, it surrounded ave a small jerk backwards, “bed”

I stared up at him “A blue mist?”

“A blue mist”

“What bluelike it”

“Never?”

“Never”

“So we didn’t disappear when I passed out?”

“No”

Weird

I turnedthe stretchy, cotton charcoal gray nightie with the dusty pink band at the top that I’d been wearing the last night I went to sleep in et your clothes? Did you wake up in those?”

“No,” he gave another jerk of his head and I saw his clothing fro boots, dumped in a corner “These were in your wardrobe which, sweets, is incredibly small”

Clothes that fit him perfectly were in ood

“As is your whole dwelling,” he went on “It’s also filthy You cleaned a cave How on earth do you live like this?”

“Well, Tor, I haven’t been living infor two months, now, have I?” I asked snottily then deave another shove ofit with such effort it hurtht back “Not until you promise you’ll settle down and rest”

“I’ll proet, the fk, away from me!” I screeched

His head tilted and his chin went down just as his eyes closed slowly and, God’s honest truth, he looked in pain

It proved to be true when he opened his eyes and locked them with mine

Yep, he was in pain Lots of it

Ouch

Man, it totally sucked that I could hate him, see his pain and hurt for hio so I couldn’t pull away

“Please, listen to me,” he said softly

“Fine,” I snapped “Get it over with so I can go to bed and let the aspirin work”

“The what?”

“It doesn’t matter Just say whatever you have to say”

His jaw clenched then his thu the side of lared at him

“Is it normal, in this world, this… travel betorlds?” he asked

“No,” I bit out

“Do you know anyone it’s happened to?”