Holy stones, Lily was the missing princess Liliana. Reine had told me about her. I hadn’t thought she’d exiled herself to the Earth realm. Or escaped.
After Lily related her tale, we sat in silence. In my case, I processed what she told me and said a prayer to whatever deity was listening for Plachul"s soul.
"So what you"re telling me is that if I accept the Crown Prince position, I"ll possibly start an apocalypse in Faerie?"
Lily nodded. "Something like that. Those of us who know of the prophecies and the history always figured that there"s no way a Fae queen would ally with a gargoyle, and there was even less of a chance that she"d mate bond with one. So even if someone had the ambition to be Queen of All Fae, that barrier would prevent it."
Kestrel regarded me with a mixture of curi
