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Chance and Trevor looked at one another Chance said, “What does that mean, an illusion?”

“It means it isn’t real—but I’m not sure why”

“I ae its location Illusion is just that … nothing more He can shift with her anywhere in this di for it, she wouldn’t know that it wasn’t real”

“Then we had better hurry so that we can get a fix on him …”

They shifted into the castle, and Chance looked around “It may be an illusion, lad, but it is a damn real one”

“Yes … but focus … focus not on what you see, but on what you feel,” Trevor said He closed and reopened his eyes “By Danu … nothing, there is nothing here … and there, there is Red!”

Chance did what Trevor said and saw through the illusion “Royce!” he called as he stepped towards her She was about one hundred feet away

Pestale stepped between them

“Chance,” she answered softly in response She kneould find her She had always known She had been hoping, stalling, waiting for this moment He was down the corridor—he was here in Pestale’s castle He and Trevor had come to save her, but she couldn’t be saved; she had David and his parents to think about They would be conscious soon …

She stood perfectly still, although the need to run to Chance was overwhelht in her throat And then … Pestale stood between them

All at once, she knehat she had to do Silently she called for her sword!

She could see Chance’s smile as he did the same; Trevor was just a step behind him, and they had Pestale surrounded

Pestale laughed and shifted away, his own death weapon held high as he waved it at them and said, “Put your weapon away, Princess, and come to me You knohat I will do, if you don’t”

Royce felt defeated by his threat, and yet, her e, so she did

It gave Chance the opportunity, and he ensnared the Dark Prince with the Golden Net he snatched out of Trevor’s hands