WHEN WE FINALLY MADE it to the shimmering air around the portal, I exhaled with relief. We were almost home.
How I longed to set foot on our home turf once again. The sky changed when we passed through the gateway between the worlds. The blackness around us was replaced by a pale dawn sky. It was disorientating, and I blinked to clear my vision as we swooped down into the lush, green valley that lay beyond the portal.
Lucian flew up beside me, dipping his wing in greeting. We must have made a strange sight, flying in tandem with our unusual cargo. Beneath us, Stavrok’s palace lay glittering in the early morning sunlight, its multitude of windows shining up at us.
Hopefully the king wouldn’t stay long in the human world. He needed medical attention, and his wife would not be happy when s
