Chapter Twenty-FiveIt was high noon when we arrived in the Sidhe land, right outside the castle, not by a faraway clearing. The land was green, full of calling birds, darting animals. It was a peaceful, stunning land. The sun shone high above the castle, the temperature warm but not hot.
The castle, like in a fairy tale, was a beautiful structure of undefined stories, full of tall towers and parapets, of round balconies and stone statues. It looked the same way it did the last time I came, except for the guards. The last time there had been no one to greet or interrupt our progress, today there were guards everywhere. On the ground, on the sky, on the balconies, in the towers. Everywhere I looked, there were huge men and women with tall spears or axes, or long, sharp swords. Above us, cir
