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Ah.
If I’m honest, that makes so much more sense than a kitten.
Epilogue
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The nightmare…begins again.
A week and a half later
“Why does Kass need both of us for this?” Alexios asks as we head toward the school.
I grunt. “Because after practicing for a week in the dream plane, she’s been experimenting with using her powers at the school and wants us to see what she’s done before she surprises Meda and the rest of the class with her first lesson on the power of belief in a world that doesn’t value childish whimsy. Part of being in a family is supporting one another when they expand their career to encapsulate what they have become as they’ve grown.”
“I still don’t know how I ended up as her adopted son.”
“That’s how marriage works.”
“You two haven’t actually gotten married yet.” Alexios straightens his glove, glares at it, straightens it again, then sighs as he stretches his fingers. “Speaking of things related to marriage, I keep waking up to Chai jumping on my face.”
“Chai likes you.”
“I am going to burn the bed you provided me with and go back to sleeping in the rafters if something doesn’t change.” His eyes narrow on Pollux. “And before you suggest the most obvious solution, you know I’m against sleeping with my door closed.”
“Kassandra can’t have him in her room ever since the great yarn massacre of approximately one week ago.”
“Your room.”
“No.”
“Meda’s.”
I smirk. “Just accept that you’re the chosen one, Xios.”
“I will be doing no such thing.” Alexios undoes his braid and redoes it tighter as we approach the school building. Unless I’m mistaken, he’s fidgeting slightly more than usual. Then again…he is often a bit twitchy.
Rolling his shoulders, Alexios murmurs, “Does something in the air around here smell…off to you?”
Kassandra’s quiet school parking lot is as quiet as its ever been, but I search nearby for the sensation of anything amiss. Only the intoxicating taste of Kassandra’s magic pricks my senses, so I answer, “No,” and let myself in.
Immediately, colors bombard me. Giant flowers dance in a meadow as rivers flow from a waterfall beside the front door. Sky stretches, eliminating all memory that I’ve just entered a building. For all I know, I’ve just passed through a trod into Faerie.
Except, I haven’t.
In Faerie, the magic runs like water and air. Tasteless and pure. Unclaimed.
Here, everything is my wife.
Beaming, Kassandra leaves her office, which I hardly recognize now that it’s nestled into the base of a massive tree. “Hi, dreamboy.”
“Hi…” Words fail me. But that’s normal whenever I’m around Kassandra. She’s just…so…yeah.
Every time I begin to guide her through using her abilities in the dream plane, she overtakes my efforts and steals my breath. She’s a natural. And I’m in love.
I’m so deeply and incomprehensibly in love.
“So,” she begins, taking my hand, “as you can see, I’ve started by making the main room into a meadow as vast as childhood imagination to encourage going the distance.” She leads me into a mushroom tavern, otherwise known as the school’s new kitchen. “Here, my littles can have their meals in the earthy warmth of what I’m calling medievalcore. Next—” She presents a barn filled with hay and lofts and a massive chalkboard. “The classroom. Self-explanatory.” At last, she stops Alexios and me in the library, releases my hand, and pinches her chin. “I might have overdone this one. Just a bit.”
