![]() ![]() "My dear," he said, a warm smile lighting up his face. She lifted and dropped it again, and after a moment Yazad himself came to the door, not the butler Mab had been expecting. The sound was like the crack of a gunshot. Now, Mab lifted Yazad's heavy door knocker and let it fall. She didn't remember anything after that until Mihai gathered her into his arms and carried her through a window of air, to London. The cold filled her.Īnd this time, oblivion came with it. Through tears Mab looked into those hated blue eyes. "You'll understand everything," he said, and the Queen turned back to Mab. Mab saw her cast one questioning glance at Mihai, who nodded. ![]() ![]() And as she had done so many times before, the Queen had slid her fingers under Mab's chin and tilted up her face. But they had taken hold of her arms and eased her out of the nook in the wall. She pleaded with them to leave her alone. There was feverish high color in both their faces and Mab had skittered into a nook in the rock wall of her room. Mihai came to her a second time that full-moon night, and this time he brought the Queen with him. ![]() Hope had dwindled until all that remained was the wish to hold her child in her arms before they did to her whatever it was they did to spent pets.īut miraculously, it hadn't come to that. ![]()
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