“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones Chapter 23 (Part 1) -Karen- Sometimes life is a ride. It was a ride for me, as we were travelling in the portal. It was totally different from the fall. I didn’t know that there were variations of portals. And God knows I didn’t want to know the other kinds of portals. There are secrets you know and then there are secrets you come to know when you aren’t expecting them to unfold. Being a witch was not my dream or anything and if this was something Lady Adeline had been keeping from me, I wanted to kill that lady. She was a powerful vampire but I wasn’

