No more alternate timelines. No more Paradox Fae. Just a single way forward, with all four of us by her side.
Hurry back, she whispered to me, acknowledging that I’d left.
I won’t be far,I promised.
I know, she replied. Just like I know how to find you now. She breathed a spell into my mind, telling me she’d not only learned how to use my shadowing ability, she’d memorized it.
Good, I murmured. Eat something.
Mmm, she hummed, her mind purring with life and Earth once more.
I laughed under my breath as we exited the building. “When this is all over, we need to find a place with a real garden for Aflora.”
“So we can watch her frolic in the nude?” Zakkai asked.
My lips twitched. “Among other things.”
Many other things.