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So if Morpheus was the one who drew us here, it had nothing to do with Typhos’s Source.
Why does that feel wrong?I wondered as goose bumps skated down my arms.Because I can still feel his Source calling for me…
Maybe… maybe both assessments were true.
Morpheus had inspired the dreaminess while the Hell Fae Source called for me.
That could explain the calmness that had settled over me, the need to rein in my emotions andthink.
Or perhaps it was just me and I was learning what it meant to lead.
To be a queen.
But not just any queen—the Hell Fae Queen.
I took the stone from Melek and said, “Let’s go.”
We could analyze what this meant all day and night, or we could act.
And something told me Typhos needed us to act…right fucking now.
CHAPTER 36
MELEK
Cami took off down the tunnel, forcing the rest of us to chase after her.
She had no idea where she was going, yet she sprinted as though she traversed this tunnel every day. She deftly dodged right, narrowly missing a pit of skulls, then continued forward while Az ashed several feet in front of her.
An “oomph” left her as she ran right into his chest. Then she growled and tried to maneuver around him, but he grabbed her by the hips and hoisted her into the air.
“Now you listen to me, little warrior,” he began.
“Put me down!”
“Cami, this tunnel is riddled with traps,” Ajax said, joining them with an exasperated sigh. “We have to tread carefully down here. You have no idea what kind of hole you might fall into.”
“Or portal,” Az added. “There’s one just over there that goes to the Human Realm; it’s frequented a lot down here.”
“Yes, that. And there’s the tunnel split to consider, too.”
“Split?” Cami repeated, her tone tinted with irritation.
I could barely make out her face in the shadows—the flickering blue candles nearby casting only enough light toilluminate the enchanted path through the mountain—but I suspected she was scowling.
However, she’d stopped trying to fight her way around Az.
“Half of the tunnel sits under the Netherworld Kingdom Mountain. The other half splits into two enchanted paths, one of which leads to the Ghouls and the other to the Strigoi,” Az explained. “They don’t really commingle the way the Corpse Fae and Death Fae do. And, well, the Morpheus Kingdom is… large.”
“Understatement,” Ajax muttered.
Cami heaved a sigh. “Fine. Then you lead, Commander.”
Az didn’t immediately move, likely mulling over how to reply to the impatience underlying Cami’s tone.
But after a beat, he did the smart thing and started walking down the tunnel.
Had this been any other time or place, he probably would have challenged our mate for sassing him.
