Nash It felt like someone had hijacked my life. I had been plucked out of my own world, a world which had never been very predictable, but at least I had a certain amount of control over my own circumstances. And I had been dumped into this one, which like a fun house of distorted mirrors. In this world there weren’t snipers or landmines, but there were mate-bonds, psychic connections, magic dreams. It all left me feeling dizzy. Daphne’s suggestion that I go train with the Royal defense force was a brilliant one. At least I knew what I was about in a training ring. I didn’t even mind setting my alarm for four-thirty the next morning so that I could be awake, dressed and ready when a staff member knocked lightly on my door and led me through the château to the barracks on the north si

