I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TIME worked in the Fae kingdoms, but Nyeer didn’t seem to be in any hurry to take me back to the Academy.
After my cry, he’d said goodnight and left me to rest.
I had the best night’s sleep I’d ever had, all alone in my huge bed.
I felt so warm and protected.
Safe.
At home.
A feeling that was so incredibly rare for me. Some people, like Holly, could be at home anywhere. School, friends’ houses, even in a movie theater.
But I couldn’t. Even as a child, I hadn’t liked to go far from my parents’ home.
And now I had another place where I felt like I could rest.
Before this past year, I’d never felt safe anywhere except my own house. Then there was the Academy, and now Faerie.
How the three were related, I didn’t know.
After I woke up, I got dressed into my spare th
