“I feel that too.” Tegan pressed her fingers to her temples. “I have this need to do something . . . but . . . what?”

My rune stones flashed, drawing my attention down to my bracelet. Light seemed to roll across my bracelet like a wave, lighting up one stone at a time. Then it began to vibrate. Little pulses of electricity buzzed into my skin and up my arm. I wrapped my fingers around them and cursed. “Dammit, Tegan.”

“What?” She scowled. “Frankie⁠—”

But her words were lost . . . because my rune stones sucked me away again.

At least I was finally understanding what was happening to me. I knew this was just an astral projection, so it didn’t scare the life out of me. That being said, I still had no idea where I was or what I was seeing. I frowned and looked around. What the hell is this place?

This was a marshy riverbed with water that was as aquamarine as the beach where we’d found Leyka. A forest towered over me, surrounding me on all sides. Trees grew wild here. Roots and branches were sticking out in every direction and connecting with each other. I couldn’t see the sky through all the leaves and branches, but the rays of light poking through were the same turquoise color as the river. Everything else was cast in shadow. It was some kind of wild forest. If this was a fantasy movie, I’d definitely have called this the dark forbidden forest—Wait. I basically do live in a fantasy movie. Okay, maybe keep moving so we can see why the stones pulled me here.

With a deep breath, I started forward, weaving a path between the trees cast in shadow until a cloud of glowing gold specks swarmed around me. I gasped and stopped short. These were fairyflies. I’d seen these before.

“Saffie? Last time you brought Saffie—Wait.” Then it clicked. “This is Seelie.”

The fairyflies swarmed around me in tight circles, then darted forward in a diagonal pattern. My gut told me to follow them, so I did. They led me out of the creepy dark forest and into an open meadow with brightly colored wildflowers and lush green grass. It looked normal, like home, and I’d just started to wonder if I’d guessed wrong, but then I looked up and saw a bright purple sky. The trees around the meadow had leaves that glistened in various shades of the rainbow. We are not in Kansas anymore, Toto. When my Coven-mates brought me into Seelie last time, I remembered how similar it looked to Earth in some ways but boldly different in others.