what we’re going to do. After we figure out how to handle Daniel’s problem and save Summer and Marcus, we should see if the witch can find a way to get us home.”
“No, we need to get back to the doorway,” Danny insisted. “Myrddin will be doing everything he can to get us back. We need to be waiting for him.”
“I know he’s working hard to help us,” Dev agreed.
I dropped his hand and started for the house. If I stayed with them, I would argue and my anger would spill over.
Kelsey stood on the porch, her face pale in the moonlight. “She says she doesn’t know what beef is.”
And my day was complete because a hungry Kelsey was a difficult Kelsey. “I promise I’ll find you something. Maybe that’s not what they call it here. We’ll all need food. Especially Daniel. His body hasn’t had nourishment like that in a long time.”
Another problem I had to face. It wasn’t like I could order a pizza.
“The witch is working on a curative,” Kelsey said. “She’ll need to examine him.”
“The witch has a name.” Erna stood in the doorway, a stern look on her face. She nodded Danny’s way. “Come along then. I can heal your wounds, but it might take longer to figure out what’s truly happening in your body. We should get started.”
Daniel managed to make it up the steps, though I noticed Dev followed behind him, waiting to catch him if he should fall. “Z, why don’t you stay out here with Kelsey? Dev can come in with me.”
Yep, he was frustrating when he was sick. Dev gave me a look that let me know he wouldn’t let Danny do anything stupid, so I simply nodded as they all went inside.
“Hopefully Erna can fix him up.” Kelsey looked back to the door they’d disappeared through.
“What’s she like?” In all the horror of the day, there was some sunshine.
“Oh, I think she’s going to be difficult. I can already tell she doesn’t like me.”
I stared at Kelsey because sometimes she got off course.
“Oh,” she said, nodding. “Not the witch chick. You mean Summer.”
We hadn’t talked much on the walk here. I’d been too worried about Daniel, but now I needed something more than vague details of her kidnapping. “Yes. I’d like to know about her.”
“She looks like you. I mean, it’s uncanny. I thought she was you at first.”
“Tell me Dev didn’t hit on her.” I had to smile because Dev would have been happy to see me.
“Just a little, and then he was shocked and horrified and started playing the overprotective dad,” Kelsey said with a grin. “She’s apparently a thief and that’s why she’s in trouble.”
“Yeah, I got that.” I wasn’t sure how I felt about my daughter following the family tradition. Her life wasn’t supposed to be like this at all. It was precisely why I’d let them take her. “I would have thought she wouldn’t have a job, per se. She was basically supposed to walk around and be worshipped by her Fae family.”
I couldn’t help but think about Haweigh. Maybe it was being here, knowing Summer had been here, that had made me see her in that weird vision of another world. Why would Haweigh have let Summer go? Why send her out to roam the planes with no protection?
Kelsey eased down onto one of the three rockers that sat on the porch. “I’m not sure, but I get the feeling there’s some tragedy in there. She definitely doesn’t have contact with her old Fae tribe. I think she’s only really close to the witch and Dean. We need to talk about him, Your Highness.”
I nodded and sat beside her. “Yes. You think he’s the one Myrddin sent away, the one of two who can harm him. You think if we bring him back maybe he can do the job and then Lee won’t have to.”
“Yeah, why put Lee in danger when Dean has been training for this all his life?” Kelsey said with her warrior’s practicality.
I wasn’t sure it would work out that way, but I understood her thought process. “We’ll have to be careful around Myrddin. If he gets even a hint of who Dean is, he’ll go for his throat.”
“Who is Myrddin?”
I looked to Kelsey, who has elevated senses and should have known we weren’t alone.
Dean slipped outside, carrying a tray of something. “Sorry. I couldn’t help but overhear. Mostly because I was eavesdropping.”