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“Why?”
“The only way to stop this destruction is to destroy her.”
“We are not convinced.” The creature swirled in a mini-shadow tornado for a bit before calming.
That set Effie off. She threw her hands wide and screamed at the creature. “Bring her to me!”
Seemingly unaffected by the woman’s tirade, the creature continued to float in front of her until she quieted, her rage temporarily spent.
“How will destroying the princess save the Unconscious Realms?”
I found it interesting that he seemingly included the other realms in with Dream.
“The nothingness seeks the princess. Once it has her, it will be satisfied.” Effie acted so certain, but I sensed that there was more to it than simply feeding me to the nothingness. Her goal was to destroy Dream so she could get home. Did the shadow creatures know this?
“We will think on it,” the shadow creature promised, then the scene faded from view and the shadowy gag left my mouth.
“She wants to destroy Dream, you know that, right? Her goal is to get home.” I struggled against my bonds.
“She is bound. Mortals cannot know of the other realms and remain of their own world. They do not survive it.”
“She doesn’t seem to know, or care. I don’t know how she started all of this, but we have to stop it.”
“The nothingness is a very powerful dream. Just like most everything else in the Unconscious Realms. That it was created by a mortal in the lands simply makes it stronger.”
“How do we defeat it?”
“The eight royals are necessary.”
“Right, we get that, but two of them are trapped in the storm. I don’t know where Baz is, and the only way we could think to get them out was to go in after them. I got out once.”
“With a tether,” the shadow creature replied. “We know much.”
“Great, so how do I do it?” I snapped at the being. His cryptic words were fucking pissing me off.
“Finish your tether.” The wall thinned again, showing Baz hanging in space as I must have been, but his eyes were scrunched shut. After a brief glimpse of my childhood friend, the shadows thickened again.
“Seriously? Sex is the solution to everything?” Not that I normally minded, but I didn’t want either of us forced into something we weren’t yet ready for.
“Other ways to make a tether.”
“How?”
“Blood.”
I sighed. “I’m not a vampire.”
“No. Neither is Prince Baz,” the creature agreed.
“Anything else?” I tugged at the bindings again.
“We know much, but not all.” The creature faded out and my bonds dissolved.
“Lame copout,” I snarled as I shook circulation back into my limbs. I set about trying to escape.
Last time the barrier that had kept me trapped had wavered. This time when I pushed against it, it felt slippery like soap on glass. I put my hands out and touched it. Bone chilling cold froze my fingers, and I jerked back.
“Ember?”
