Jennet wished she could talk to Tam, but her dad wasn’t staying behind tonight to go over the data. She had to be content with a small wave to Tam as he and Zeg headed out through the shiny glass doors of VirtuMax headquarters.
J“Jennet,” her dad said, holding the door open for her, “all right with you if we walk home?”
She nodded, though her stomach clenched. Walking the few short blocks to their house would still give him too much time to ask questions—and she could tell he was suspicious about what she and Tam had been doing in-game.
Technically, they hadn’t even been playing Feyland. Instead they’d been using magical faerie rings to travel to realms far removed from the mortal world, on a quest to stop the fey folk from taking over. Yeah, it all sounded so plausible.
Zeg’s guzzler
