Chapter 39 Terms and ConditionsZOE POV
"Again, and I cannot stress this enough, I have no power to renegotiate the terms of your punishment from the Faerie Queen," I tell Tempest and Ariadne through gritted teeth, "especially since your current contract of punishment forbids you from entering the fae realm while it is in effect. I can t get there on my own, even if I were inclined to—"
"Shhhhh!" Ariadne hisses. She closes her eyes and seems to be listening to something. Xander, still beside me and getting increasingly bored and antsy, c***s his gun again.
"What s—" he begins.
"Anselm s dead," Ariadne announces as her strange periwinkle eyes snap open. "His aura, his spirit…they re not here anymore."
Anselm s dead?! The idea seems implausible at best, but Ariadne s extremely perceptive
