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took over and leave her with a purely beast mentality. Ena gave her a toothy grin, sharp little teeth, and vampire-to-die-for wicked canines both on the upper half of her mouth and the lower jaw.
    Alicia tried not to swallow hard or shudder or act anything more than I’m-a-dragon-fae-princess-so-you-have-to-obey-me look.
    Then Ena shifted back into the Goth girl. “I was to bring back whoever took you hostage. But good point.” She turned to the teen who managed to throw up his lunch all over the floor.
    “Are you sure you want me to keep that promise?” Ena asked Alicia, wrinkling her nose at Brett, looking more than annoyed.
    Alicia was surprised that Ena would take Alicia’s orders over her grandfather’s. If the king said the boy was to be turned over to him, it was Ena’s duty to do so. Which made Alicia appreciate the gesture.
    “Your call.” Ena held her arms outstretched as if she was getting ready to shift into a dragon again and use her fire to wipe out Brett this time.
    “She said I might be one of you,” Brett managed to croak, his voice hoarse.
    Ena smiled, but it was not a friendly look.
    “We’ll take him back with us. But we’ve got to let Deveron know I’m all right and not to come here looking for me,” Alicia said.
    “Fine.” Ena said to Brett. “You’ve got a pardon. For the moment. Think well on what you’ve done to our kind, human.”
    He rose, scowling at her. But Alicia was glad he held his tongue. She wasn’t all that certain that Ena would take much lip from the guy. And if he made a move toward them, or tried to escape, Alicia was sure Ena wouldn’t hesitate to turn him into a pile of ashes also.
    “Unlock her,” Ena ordered. “You’re going to see our fae world. Though you might not like it much where you’ll be.”
    He shakily stumbled over to Alicia, unlocked her shackles, trying not to cause her any more pain than she was already feeling. His blue eyes looked into hers, beseeching her to protect him…or something.
    “Do you really think I might be one of you?” he asked softly, as if he was afraid the dragon shifter might incinerate him for even asking.
    “Maybe,” Alicia said.
    Or maybe not. What did she know? From what she’d read about fae seers was that they had some fae roots, but they couldn’t be fae because they weren’t pure fae. Sometimes the fae took humans into their world and gifted them with their powers, if they favored the human. But sometimes it didn’t work out, and they’d have to take their powers away and return them to the human world. Then they were like lost souls, knowing of a world beyond their own that they’d been part of but could never return to.
    “Shall we?” Ena said, then grabbed his arm with a rough-you-are-the-prisoner touch and encircled Alicia’s arm gently, then transported them to the dark fae castle of the Denkar, Donao. They ended up in the great hall where the place was virtually devoid of people. Where was everyone?
    Ena released Alicia’s arm. She frowned when Alicia was unable to stand because of the dizzying nausea the fae transport had caused and sank to her butt. “Are you all right?” Ena asked.
    The dragon shifter almost looked embarrassed for her. The human stood there, Ena’s hand still gripping his arm as if she thought he might try to run away, looking shocked to see the castle, but he didn’t seem to be affected by the fae travel in the least.
    “Fae travel,” Alicia said, annoyed with herself. She tried to stand, but grew so dizzy, she gave up on it. She hated to admit that that she couldn’t travel great distances without the fae way of traveling making her sick.
    A maid, coming in through the servants’ quarters from several hundred feet away, spied them. For a moment, she just stared at them, trying to figure out who they were.
    Ena called out to the maid, “I’ve brought Princess Alicia here. I must return her at once to Crislis Castle. But we had to let Prince Deveron