I HALF EXPECTED ERSKINE to stop me. Or to wrench my arm behind my back and pretend he was forcing me forward to get on the Queen’s good side.
But something about our conversation must have shifted his loyalties. Because Erskine stood back and watched as I walked through the portal into another world.
He watched...as I tripped over nothing and fell through a cold, whirling nothing. Which meant that, rather than arriving with knives out, I landed in the Unseelie Court on my hands and knees.
Thankfully, the Court was too busy to notice my fumbled arrival. Pulling myself to my feet, I noted that the land of Faery looked exactly like I’d expected...and nothing like I’d expected. It was loud and bright and colorful, full of beings both beautiful and cruel.
And all of their gazes were glued t
