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The world goes sideways and all I can think is: ah, ain

I’ from the force of Saxon’s unexpected shove Add that to the way the ground shifts beneath me and I can barely stay on my feet, let alone worry about what’s in h, and I justonto the ave ht into the middle of an abandoned fairy circle

The seeing stone he tipped into laone I must have dropped it because my left hand is coout on the other side

I land with a grunt, the bag of pretty, pink apples knocking the wind out of ut Oof I quickly roll off of the bag, still clutching the fabric between ers When this is the only supply I have to keep fro, I can’t lose it—even if I’m pretty sure that I am lost

The sky is purple While I’ flat ontoI notice is that it’s way darker now than it was only seconds ago when I was still standing with Saxon The next? Is that the sky is freaking purple

And not just the type of purple you get when a stor Oh, no It’s a rich, deep violet streaked with black clouds that are seriously black Not grey, not charcoal, but pitch-black It’s as inti to help ure out where I am

Since I’ve been in Faerie, I’ve grown used to the old that whirled over lance around Dark is an understatement There’s no sun—no ht A layer of shadow covers everything, fro, bare trees It h I don’t really see much It’s like someone dumped a bottle of ink everywhere because, except for a couple of feet in front of ets sed up by the darkness

I’ atof apples and hurry toaround, I look behind me It’s just the same Dark, dark, and more dark

What the hell?

Saxon told me that the fairy circle was supposed to push h it and, in a heartbeat, I go from Faerie to the Iron, the name the faerie folk have for the human world Not that I wanted to I didn’t I have so relationship with my scarred Seelie, Rys—and I refused to take the fairy circle

Didn’t h anyway

I can’t blah by now that I kind of get where Saxon was co from Before we broke out of the Faerie prison, Rys told uards on our side That turned out to be Saxon, a Seelie es Rys a debt And, believetotally different to the race in charge here One of the fae will do anything to erase a debt they owe

In Saxon’s case, he tried to repay Rys by givingerous for itive For another, I’ht by the wrong creatures, it could be open season on me—or worse

I’ve already been through some of the “worse” Since I’ve been here, I’ve been poisoned, sold at a Faerie market to a Seelie noble, propositioned to be some kind of pet, sent to fairy jail, and then nearly “claiuard—and, yes, it was just as unpleasant as it sounds Sure, I also started to fall forour break-out, I thought un to finally turn around