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First, he demanded to know the latest about the Sinsar Dubh and I told hi the fact that Barrons had been withcontest I told hiht now, because I had no clue how to get close to it, and since he couldn’t, either, there was no way to get it to the queen As I said that, a question occurred to ht of it before

"You said the queen can touch it, so why doesn’t she come after it herself?"

"She dares not leave Faery She was attacked recently, and it left her severely weakened Her enemies in the ht an ancient place of refuge and protection within our realic There, she believes she can re-create the Song None but those few she trusts can enter She must be kept safe, MacKayla There is no other to lead in her place All the princesses are gone"

"What happened to them?" In a matriarchal line, that was a disaster

"She sent the with others They have not been seen or heard froht I could do this? If Fae Princesses couldn’t hold their own against the ers out there, what chance did I have?

"There’s so I don’t understand, V’lane The walls of the Unseelie prison were put up hundreds of thousands of years ago, weren’t they?"

"Yes"

"Wasn’t that a long time before Queen Aoibheal erected the ones between our realms?"

He nodded

"Well, if they existed independently once before, why can’t they now? Why will the prison walls go down, too, if the LM succeeds in bringing those between our worlds down? Why will all the walls fall?"

"The walls have never existed independently The walls between our worlds are an extension of those prison walls Without the Song, the queen was unable to fabricate barriers on her own Separating worlds requires iic of the prison walls, and entrust a portion of the nealls’ fortification to huer results than a solo undertaking It was risky, but over the protests of her council, she deemed it necessary"