regular basis, they were actually subplanes of the Earth planes. His unique powers worked the same there because the suns were so similar. I looked up and the sun was low in the sky. I couldn’t tell anything from it, but it seemed to be affecting Danny. He sat up and put a hand on his chest.
“I think I’m okay. I feel weird though,” he admitted.
“Well, we’re on another plane and the sun’s rays might be different here. Is your skin burning?” The last thing I needed was Danny to not be able to handle the sun here.
He shook his head and managed to get to his feet. “No, I’m fine. Just hit the ground hard, I guess. Do you see Dev? My eyesight’s fuzzy.”
I stood in front of him and looked in his eyes. They were clear and blue. They looked normal. “What do you mean by fuzzy?”
He shook his head. “I don’t know. I can see fine, but it’s not as sharp distance wise. I don’t know. I must have hit my head. Give me a couple of minutes and I’ll be fine.”
“No, we won’t be fine because we’re lost on another plane of existence.”
“I couldn’t let you go.”
“Of course you could. You could even now be trying to figure out how to open that little rip and sending down a ladder,” I argued. “You could have figured out how to keep that damn door open so we could all get out of here. Did you even think about that?”
“You know what I thought about? I thought about the fact that not a few hours before a prophet told me to choose you. I was freaking choosing you, Z.”
I took a deep breath and tried to calm down. “I don’t think that’s what he meant.”
“Well then please continue to yell at me because that’s going to make things so much easier,” Danny shot back. “You think I don’t know what happened? You think I don’t understand that our kids are going to wake up and not one of us will be there? Yeah, I know what I did was stupid, but I could hear Gray’s words in my head. They were screaming at me. It was a stupid decision, but I couldn’t make another one. I was running on pure instinct and that instinct told me that no matter what happens, going after you was the only choice to make. I don’t need you yelling at me.”
He put his hand to his heart again and seemed out of breath.
He was right. Yelling and panicking weren’t going to fix a thing, and it could be affecting him. Daniel and I are connected on a base level. It’s called sympathetic transference, and sometimes his body tries to buffer mine. I still didn’t understand it but I did know that from time to time I affected him. Childbirth had been super hard on my vampire. I stepped up and put my hands on him. “All right. We can fight about it after we figure out how to get home.”
He lowered his head to mine and I heard him sigh at the connection. “I’ll let you yell all day. But now we need to figure out where our people are. And we need to stay close because I’m sure they’re working on a way to get us back.”
Sure they were. “And if this was Myrddin’s way of taking over the Council?”
His head came up, eye’s widening. “Are you kidding me? That’s ridiculous. Zoey, he tried to stop me. He yelled for me to stop.”
“What?”
“He freaked out when he realized I was going after you,” Daniel insisted. “He reached out to grab me, but I got away. I know you don’t like him, but he’s not out to get me. You have to find a way to forgive him because we need him to make a deal with the Hell plane.”
Forgive him for killing Lee? I wasn’t about to do that and I was confused because I didn’t get this play of Myrddin’s. Unless he’d fully intended for me to go into the painting and to save me, too. Daniel would have been incredibly grateful, and thinking about it, this would likely get Daniel to do anything the bastard wanted him to do. Myrddin had set up a problem so he could be the one to ride in and correct it. He’d probably wanted Daniel to watch as he brilliantly solved the issue. He would have “saved” me and I would be the