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  92. By Amanda Hocking

“No, she’s not, but there’re ways you can talk to her,” I promised her.

We went into the citadel the same way I’d followed the albino elk out. We passed through the wall alongside the Forsa River, and Jem, Sumi, and Eliana had no problem with it. Eliana said she felt some tingles, but they didn’t faze her.

It was very early in the morning, but the vendors were starting to set up the stalls on the main roads, so we took the back roads and alleys to my apartment. I wasn’t sure if I needed to keep Eliana out of sight, but I figured it would be better if we did. Plus, I felt self-conscious walking through Merellä in my pajamas.

As soon as we got to my place, I woke Dagny up, and she answered her bedroom door looking irritated and tired, but that changed the moment Eliana threw herself at Dagny.

“I’m back and I missed you,” Eliana squealed.

Dagny hugged her tentatively and looked over at me. “Ulla, what’s going on here?”

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Dagny, Jem, Sumi, and I sat around the bistro table, sipping lemon tea. Eliana had gotten bored during the conversation, and she’d gone to take a bubble bath and wash off the seawater.

Dagny listened intently and asked a lot of questions, as I’d known she would. The whole situation had left me rather dazed, and my brain felt sluggish and slow.

Jem had just finished explaining how he was a member of the Alfheim royal family, but eleventh in line for the throne, so he didn’t have the pressures of his title but had the freedoms to travel and do as he wished for the most part. Sumi was his vizier, which was something like an advisor and a bodyguard, but she described it more as being a professional best friend.

“And we’re both old family friends of Eliana,” Sumi said.

“What exactly is wrong with Eliana?” Dagny asked.

“We don’t know,” Sumi admitted. “She’s been erratic and depressed since her mother passed, but ever since she went across the bridge, her memory has been jumbled and inconsistent. She couldn’t even remember any of us, which is why we had to take her against her will.”

“You shot us with a psionic stun gun and kidnapped her,” Dagny said dryly. PSGs were entirely nonlethal weapons, but could completely incapacitate, and they hurt like hell. “I remember that well. Where did you go after that?”

“To Áibmoráigi with Illaria, but we didn’t stay long,” Jem-Kruk said.

Sumi pressed her lips together grimly. “I haven’t been welcome in Áibmoráigi since I left the Älvolk.”