Chapter 46
Thousands of glaring, bright, blinking blue dots flooded the room. They hovered and swayed like waves in the ocean. They hummed. “Little hummingbird, do you see the sky . . . ?”
The dusty room swiveled and swung back and forth, zooming in and then back out again.
The dots kept humming. “. . . It is free. It is yours. Fly. Past the mountains. Past the oceans . . .” Madeline’s vision blurred with the glare of the blue shade.
“ . . . There. You will find love . . .”
She couldn’t get a word past her mouth. She just wanted to tell Ciaran she saw the blue dots and they were singing to her.
“Madeline!”
She heard Ciaran calling out for her. But then she was flying. She tried to regain her footing, but she kept flying.
When the world stopped spinning, she realized that Ciaran was
