We landed in a Faerie circle of standing stones. I recognized it as the one in Scotland where my mother had originally given me the directive to go to Atlanta and figure out who had sold out an industrial secret to the pharmaceutical industry. With it being a liminal space between Faerie and the Earth realm, her energy lasso disappeared, and Lawrence lay on the ground gasping. I ran to him and stood in front of him to block him before Maeve could do anything else.
"Well-played, Reine, but what are you going to do now?" She advanced on me, and her hands glowed light blue, the color of the high light Fae. "I still outrank you and can compel you."
She spoke the truth…or did she? She spoke it as far as she knew it, but I had more weapons at my disposal. And in truth, I outranked her, but I d
