Kael didn’t warn me this time. One moment, Polaris still breathed around us—and the next, he wrapped his arm around my waist, and the world evaporated. It felt like stepping through a held breath. Space bent, light stretched, and then suddenly my boots met stone again.
I gasped softly as a new street greeted us. Kael released me, watching me with open curiosity. I turned in a slow circle, disbelief catching up with me now that my feet were planted.
“Is that how everyone in your pack travels? Just—step through space whenever they feel like it?”
Kael shook his head.
“No. Only the highly ranked ones. Which you have all met by now.”
That surprised me more than the actual teleportation.
“Inside Polaris,” Kael continued, his voice softer now,
“People stay and live in here until they ta
