Chapter 38
I’m breathing quickly and shallowly, even for a bird. My battle is lost. The evil fairy who cursed me will become the queen of the kingdom.
I can’t even fathom the horrors she’ll inflict on the people. Not to mention that she’ll be able to send an army to search for my tower.
My head is feeling light with all the ramifications of what occurred tonight. I don’t know what being a frantic bird does to my sleeping body in the tower. So I force myself to slow my breathing to give my human body a rest.
I need to think without feeling so lightheaded that I risk falling off my branch. I try to focus on something other than Malyn’s murder of the Dark King, just for a moment’s respite to calm myself.
And that’s when another shard catches my eye in the looking glass.
There, water spl
