Chapter 16
“How was it my fault? We were standing on it one second, and then we were on a different one surrounded by water.” Daxx glared at King Troy.
Liri backed further away from them. Daxx looked annoyed, and despite his words, the King looked amused by her. She went over to see if Paisley had gotten any answers from Bohdi’s people about her teleporting so soon after phasing. She smirked; so many years of doing nothing, and now she seemed to do it all, even if it wasn’t intentional.
As she reached them, Paisley nodded and then turned to her, “Good news, you’re going to live.”
Bohdi smiled at her, “I guess it’s only humans that have to be careful phasing too soon.”
Liri smiled, “that’s good to know.” She motioned to the hall where the porter cave was, “We didn’t exactly plan on porting.”
“Well, it works now.” Bohdi turned when one of his associates came over. Their expression said it was urgent.
Liri turned and watched Prince Rafael come over.
“You look like you’re on a missing.”
He smirked at Paisley, “Bohdi knows where the circle of stones is.”
“Really?” Paisley pulled out her phone, “are we going there?”
“Yes and no.”
Liri looked from one to the other, “what does that mean?”
“It’s a forbidden area.” Rafael crossed his arms over his chest and stood there.
“Why?” Paisley looked up from her phone.
“No one can remember why.”
Prince Emil came over, “I guess that’s the downfall to a short human life.”
“I’ll text Crissy and see if she knows anything about it.” Paisley started typing on her phone again.
“We should go take a look,” Emil suggested.
Bohdi came back over. “We can fly you over it to take a look.” He shrugged, “We have a few times, trying to figure out why it was a forbidden area.”
“Did you?” Rafael motioned to Abraham to come over.
“No.” Bohdi pulled out his phone and dialed it. “I need you to take the plane over the forbidden area.” He grinned, “Yeah, this time we have people who might know what’s happening.” He hung up.
Liri watched Emil’s son come over. He was clearly a part of the royal family, with the same large build. She didn’t know much about him besides what his aunts told her. He was over two hundred and, until recently, had lived in Interealm, not knowing that there was any other realm. What kind of life had he had? She couldn’t understand anything other than what she had lived. She needed to learn more about life outside her sheltered life.
Emil said something to him. Abraham nodded to his father and then turned to Bohdi. “Where’s your plane?”
“A few miles from the north entrance.”
Emil looked where he pointed. “There’s another entrance? You don’t use the well?”
Bohdi smirked. “No one uses the well anymore since we cut other entrances out about…”
“A hundred years ago.” Abraham finished for him.
“Yeah.”
“Okay, let’s go to your plane and take a look at this forbidden area.” Emil nodded.
A plane? Flying. “Can I come?” Liri stepped forward, “I’ve never flown before.” She’d never really done anything before, but she wasn’t about to tell them that.
“Sure,” Emil shrugged. “More eyes checking out it means we might figure it out.” He turned to Rafael, “You should come, brother.”
Rafael shook his head, “No, I don’t…”
“As Captain of the guard, you should go check it out, we may be guarding it soon.” Quinton stood behind him, grinning.
“I…”
“He’s right,” Emil nodded, “a trained eye would be good.”
Rafael scowled at him, “We’re just flying over?”
Emil nodded.
“Fine, but I’m not very excited about his.”
“Noted.” Emil turned and looked at Bohdi, “lead the way.”
“Like it’s my fault I landed in some other realm,” Daxx muttered as she walked by them, she stopped and looked at each of them, “what’s going on?”
“We’re going to check out the forbidden area.”
“Really?” She looked from Emil to Rafael, “Sign me up.” She waved a hand toward Troy, “he’s talking about ‘playing it safe’ again, and I know that means my butt warming a chair in the girl’s cave, and I’m not doing that again.”
Emil glanced at Abraham and shrugged, “Okay. Bohdi was just going to take us to the plane.” They started walking.
“Plane?” Daxx caught up to them, “What’s the plane for?”
“To fly over the forbidden area and check it out.”
“We can’t fight anyone from a plane.” Daxx looked to Liri with the expectation that she’d agree. Liri shrugged, hoping that was a good enough response for her.
“We need to get the lay of the land first,” Rafael stated with a somber expression.
“And then we go down and fight?”
Rafael shrugged, “And then we do what we need to.”
Daxx paused for a moment and then nodded, “Okay. A quick flyover, and then we go down and beat on someone.”
Bohdi smirked and started walking again. “Your family isn’t quite what I expected.” He glanced at Abraham.
Abraham shook his head slowly. “Oh, I know. It’s, uh, always interesting.”