Two weeks had passed since the day I had entered the Realm.
Two whole weeks.
I'd been cooped up in my 'room'. Only the Pixie king was allowed in to see me, and it was very rare that he actually did visit me. He claimed that he was arranging things for his crowning, and attending trials of the ones who had sided against them, deciding on how best to punish them. I had no doubt that every single case ended in their deaths, whilst I sat here helpless and useless. I was furious with myself and I longed for Nathan’s comforting arms. Where was he? The king had better have kept to his promise not to kill Nathan now that I’d accepted his proposal. Of course, though, I knew that Pixies were backstabbing creatures, untrustworthy and manipulative and that the king would probably go back on his wor
