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eyes.
                  Her brother bent down on one knee and hugged his little sister. “I do Kiera, but I promise not to be gone long. I will be back before you know it.”
    He believed the promise he made to his sister. He told her the same thing he told the King and Queen. He’d discovered sympathizers of Krishna’s hiding out in the kingdom of Saywren. The royal family thought we were leaving to quell a growing plot to remove Zander’s father from Anthame’s throne.
    In truth the plot died with Krishna. We were really leaving for Faerie. Zander had his mind set on discovering our link to the couple from our shared vision and finding out how to avert the vision of our future we both saw. Once he saw those two tasks accomplished he insisted on leaving Faerie and returning to the mortal realm. I couldn’t let that happen. Faerie needed him even if he didn’t want it to or think it did.
    I hadn’t given up on mine and the Order’s mission. Belial had to be dealt with. I would just have to try harder to convince Zander of that fact. I hoped that once we were in Faerie and he witnessed the destructiveness of Belial’s reign for himself it would make it easier to get him onboard.
    I knelt down and hugged Kiera next. The Princess occupied a soft spot in my heart. “Emily will take good care of you while Zander is gone. She’s even more fun than he is.”
    Emily gave Kiera’s hand a supportive squeeze from her spot beside the princess. “I promise we will have loads of fun. I’m not Skyler or your brother, but I will do my best. Whatever you want to do just name it. I am at your service Princess.”
    “Even archery?” Kiera eyed her making it clear she had yet to make up her mind about Emily.
    Emily chewed her bottom lip. “Well…I admit I have never strung a bow or shot an arrow, but it seems like it will be fun to learn. Maybe you can teach me?”
    Kiera beamed at the prospect of being the teacher to someone older. “Okay.” She squeezed Emily’s hand back finally making up her mind about the noble girl and deciding she would do as a suitable companion until her brother and new sister returned.

 
     
     
    Chapter 9
     
     
                   M y magic only worked to open a portal to Faerie at places where the mortal realm and the realm of Faerie backed up to one another. I knew for sure the spot that I initially stepped from Faerie into the mortal world in was one of them.
    Zander and I traveled the half-day ride to Arythmia in near silence. We were both lost in our own thoughts of the vision we shared, what it meant and the events that led up to it.
    Being too noble for any outward displays of anger, he let it stew just beneath the surface. Zander was both hurt and angry that I lied to him yet again, or really never stopped.
    I felt bad about it and it pained me to do so, but there was no other way. If I’d told him the truth of my nature, the Order, Faerie and his lineage outright he would have immediately dismissed me as insane. I wouldn’t have had a hope in hell of convincing him there was a thread of truth in my claims and to return to the realm of Faerie with me. As we stood now, he believed me but only agreed to return to Faerie to avoid the vision of our predetermined fates. He refused to talk about Belial or the Order or the Roths’ link to the Asteroth bloodline.
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                  As we crossed over Arythimia’s border, its high society streets sat undisturbed and as taciturn as ever. Even the air around us stilled.
    The elegant residences that lined row after row of cobblestone streets rose haughtily above us. My mind briefly wandered to Samael. I tried in vain to push away its thoughts of him. The last time I saw him Zander and I were leaving Arythmia for Garreth to rescue his sister from Krishna’s vile clutches. He’d pulled me aside in an uncharacteristic display of emotion and fatherly-like concern. I shifted uncomfortably in my saddle at the