Chapter 19
Viridian eyes stared from a face that shimmered with a thousand shifting colours. The creature flying toward me was spectacular. Beauty, perfected in shape-shifting form. Iridescent wings the size of windsurfer sails rippled as they guided the creature through the misty haze to where I floated.
‘Where are you going, Lainie? Bane is falling to pieces back there. What happened? Is Jake around somewhere?’ Noah’s voice emerged from the exotic creature’s mouth and yet that somehow seemed entirely natural. He looked like a creature from a Barbie movie, which thankfully seemed to have escaped his notice. He scanned our hazy surroundings. ‘And where the hell are we, anyway?’
Instead of answering, I threw myself at him, clutching at the familiar feel of his alien form. Without hesitat
