CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
I shrank away from the hand offered by this strange man. “Who are you?”
His smile took on a crooked tilt to it. “You know who I am, Adi. You keep calling to me. That’s why I’m here. I’ve come to take you home.”
To say I was perplexed was an understatement. I was confused out of my skull. “You work for Lady Mordra?”
He gave me a look of shock before he burst into laughter. It was a full, hearty laugh that shook the branches and leaves, and made the blades of grass dance. After a moment he recovered himself and shook his head. “No, Adi. I don’t work for her. Quite the contrary, in fact, and that’s why I’m here. I’ve come to take you back to the land of the living.”
I blinked at him, and I didn’t trust what my ears had told me. “You… you want to bring me
