After a short moment, she takes it.

" well where are we going to go once we get there? "

He started off, his wolf trailing silently behind them. He led her back into the palace, down empty halls swathed in ice and shadows. All the Unseelie fae were outside, dancing the night away. "I've seen you," Sage murmured without looking at her. He turned a corner. "I've watched you with my brother. And I want to warn you, you mustn't trust him." He had two brothers...which one was he talking about?



"Where do you wanna go?"

" I don't know. "

,, Which one? ,,

"Okay, then. Guess we'll just go where it takes us."


"Either of them." He pulled her down another corridor, one that she might recognize. They were close to the throne room now. Sage pressed on without slowing. "You do not know the enmity between Ash and Rowan, how deep the rivalry goes. Especially Rowan's part. The jealousy he feels for his younger brother is a dark poison, eating him from the inside, making him bitter and vengeful."

,, Why? Did one of them do something to the other? ,, Theres a note of curiosity to her voice, though she clearly doesnt care very much.

" I don't trust that. "

"Yes." It was a curt answer, straight to the point. They entered the throne room in all its frigid, icy beauty. Sage released her and walked toward the throne, his wolf padding behind him. He had come to a stop a few feet beside Mab's icy throne, staring at something on the altar beside it. A moment later, it was clear that that was the source of the ungodly chill in the room. The Scepter of the Seasons hovered a few inches over the altar, washing the prince's face in icy blue light.

"Beautiful, isnt it?" he murmured, running his fingers over the frozen handle. "Every year, I see it, and yet it never ceases to amaze me." His eyes glittered; he seemed to be in some sort of trance. "Someday, if Mab ever gets tired of being queen, it will be mine to accept, to rule with. When that happens--"

Isiea wasn't able to hear the rest, for at that moment, the wolf let out a long, low growl and bared his teeth.



"I don't blame you."

" if we end up in some terrifying place im blaming you. "