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the feel of something wet against her lashes, he couldn’t be sure. She clearly wasn’t ready to talk of what had transpired with Julian, and he wasn’t going to push her.
    She cleared her throat. “Ready now?”
    He chanced a glance at her face. Yes, her dark brown lashes glistened at their base. “As Mazeki probably told you, there’s no way to flash to the Mount of Truth. I can get us to the first stop on the map and then flash us back to that same location after you rest on the surface. I’m not sure how long the journey will be, but I don’t want you to overstay your welcome here.”
    “Too late,” she muttered, glancing into the distance toward Julian’s land.
    “I’m sorry?”
    “Nothing. But I’m really feeling fine. Even when I…uh—” she cleared her throat again, “—visited Julian before, I never felt worse than a little fatigued when the hour was up. I really don’t understand why everyone makes such a big deal of it.”
    “Kara, even females a hundred times your age have to regenerate on the surface. Demiáre can’t remain in this realm indefinitely.”
    “I wasn’t suggesting indefinitely, just that you don’t need to be so worried. I’m not going to let the Abyss suck me in for my pride’s sake.”
    He laughed and shook his head. So said the woman who was hurting so badly he could feel her pain seeping through his skin, and yet she went on as though the past eight months with her black-wing lover hadn’t meant a thing. “As you say. Let’s get started.”
     
    Kara didn’t know how it was supposed to feel getting dumped. She’d never really had a boyfriend before Julian, so she didn’t have much to compare it to. Still, she wondered if it was normal that after three weeks, she vacillated between wanting to weep and bash her fists into the nearest cloud until it wet its watery pants.
    Damn it, she knew that what she and Julian had was nothing more than a glorified booty call, but for eight long months she’d looked forward to the short moments in time when she could touch his body and glory in the fact that it was hers.
    And he was here somewhere at this very moment. Maybe at his place. Maybe he was already with Mazeki. But she and Julian were back in the same realm…
    Well, screw him and the black wings he flew in on. Maybe she would get a harem going on Mercury Island and see just what else was out there. From all she heard, it was unnatural for a Demiáre female to be monogamous anyhow. Maybe she was only attached to Julian because he was all she knew. “Yeah, that’s it,” she said, agreeing with her self-assessment.
    “No, unfortunately, that’s not it,” Gavin replied. “I’m looking for an outcropping of rock at the edge of Raleon’s kingdom that looks like a fawn. That doesn’t even look like a mammal.”
    Gavin thought he’d be able to flash them close to the first marker, but after thirty minutes of his arms crossed over Kara’s middle and his heavy silver wings beating the wind above them, her breasts were falling asleep from lack of blood flow. “A fawn, huh? That must be something. How funny that the rocks eroded in the shape of a baby deer.”
    She was fairly close to asking Gavin to massage her tits to get her circulation going again, but she wasn’t sure how that would go over. So instead she said, “I think I’m ready to make a pit stop.”
    His arms jerked. “Are you feeling faint? Would you like to rest on the surface for a while?”
    “Not a chance. I said I’d tell you when I need to go back, and I will. I just want to stretch a little.”
    “In that case, let’s see if we can make it to the fawn. It should be close. You see those boulders ahead?”
    She looked off into the distance and her mouth dropped open. Sure enough there were mounds of boulders in every shape and size, resembling a sculpture garden, but instead of being carved or crafted, they appeared to be natural shapes. But nothing in the Shadowland was natural. Especially