"Okay." Tiernan held up his hands as he and Aideen backed away from me. "Then why did that just happen? Why did your body react to the magic when you crossed into Fairy? Why did magic overtake you right at twilight and then transform you into this?"
"I don't know," I whispered.
"Those unseelie fairies who came after you," he began again. "My soldiers. We believe the Unseelie King ordered them to kill you. They, as well as the Sluagh, took you high into the air so you couldn't levitate. I'm guessing that your gifts are stronger when you do so. Am I right?"
"I..." I thought about it. "Yes, I guess my psychic abilities seem stronger when I levitate."
"Because you're touching Fairy when you tread the in-between; connecting to the source of your magic," Tiernan explained. "The path from the
