“So be it.” She raised her hand, alive with fire, touched his forehead and he fell to the ground unconscious. She stepped back and looked to him with concern. Then she bent down and put her hands on him. Without a sound, the room shifted and they disappeared.
Once gone, Mab cried out in a wordless cry of angst that could not be consoled. I put my arm around her and she pushed me away and exited the closet. Full of tears, she turned to me and said, “Now we must follow them. Step on this spot with me and we’ll travel to where they went.”
“Do you need to rest a bit?” I walked over to her and could see the heartache that still affected her.
“No, I need to do this now before I lose my will to do so. Let’s go.”
We stood in the spot that her younger self had just been and we shifted through t
