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“I have an idea.” The ellyllon dug into the pack she carried and quickly ripped some fabric to form a sort of eye patch. “Try this.”
Carys pulled the band over her right eye, and everything looked like it had before. Then she tugged it over and covered her left eye, and the world shifted.
The fae looked as they always did, but the unicorn was covered in scars invisible to her other eye. And when she looked at Cadell, she also saw wounds that had been long healed. A piercing through his wing and a great gash below his neck where he had once bled so Duncan could forge dragon steel.
“Okay.” Carys nodded. “I think I know why my mom wanted me to do this.”
Your vision is now touched by the gods,Cadell said.
Sister.
Carys blinked at the sound of Seren’s voice in her mind.
I’m with you. It’s time.
“I can see magic,” Carys said. “And Seren is with me.” She turned to look at her dragon. “We’re together now. It’s time for me and the Crow Mother to meet face-to-face.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
When they crawled back through the fae gate, Carys was curious if the enchantment over her right eye was still going to work. But the moment she moved her eye patch to observe the dark woods around them, the more she realized it not only worked but was as much curse as blessing.
Cadell, back in human form, held her by the arm. “Are you all right?”
“Yeah, just… adjusting.”
I see what you see,Seren said in her mind.Give ourselves time to adjust.
“We don’t have time,” Carys responded to the voice in her head.
The forest around them was alive with magical creatures. There were wisps and nymphs floating in the trees. Pixies danced along the long grasses, and sly, furtive creatures skittered along the forest floor.
“We need to find Duncan,” Carys said.
And Lachlan.
A long howl broke the silence of the forest.
Naida’s head went up. “Godrik.”
“How is he in wolf form?” Carys asked.
The magic is powerful here. Can’t you feel it?
A massive white wolf with dark grey shoulders bounded toward them. Carys was almost afraid he was going to roll right over them until he circled once, then transformed.
She blinked her right eye. “How?”
Godrik was a man with her human vision, but when she closed her left eye, he was all wolf.
The wolf has his power in this place.Seren spoke in her mind, and it was like hearing her own thoughts.The Morrígan is thinning the barrier between the realms of Shadow and Light.
“Duncan is at Cley Hill,” Godrik said. “Everyone in the village is at Cley Hill. Along with who knows how many people from all over Briton. The chalk plain is covered with her acolytes.”
“In like… half an hour?”
Naida cocked her head. “I hear no vehicles as I did before.”
“All the roads are clogged. People eventually just got out of their cars and walked,” Godrik said. “That’s why Duncan is with Lachlan and me.”
