Chapter 8

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~Kalen~

It's been a month since I've gotten here and there have been a few cases with the changeling but none of the adults seem to have noticed anything weird. I have noticed that the young mortals sometimes mention it but they pay no attention, which is a good thing for us. If we were to be discovered by mortals it would be catastrophic.

I'm sitting up in the tree, leaning against the trunk and whittling a small piece of wood with a knife. I notice Asher walk into her room with a smile on her face that almost immediately turns into a frown. I put the knife down and sit up, a frown also on my face. I see her looking at her doors and understand the confusion. Her doors are wide open. I remember the changeling going in there earlier, going through them again and again, becoming increasingly frustrated each time. I don't know what it was doing or why it was doing it, but it must have left them open.

Asher walks over to the doors but right as she touches the handles something strange happens. When you look through the doors all you can see are trees. A forest of glittering silver trees. Asher is frozen with confusion. She then looks at a spot that I can't see from my vantage point and screams, falling back in fear.

I jumpout of the tree and rush to her window, trying to see what it is she saw, but the forest and it's glittering trees are gone, replaced by the usual back yard. Her father then rushes in asking whats wrong and Asher looks back at the doors, once again confused. She explains that it was just a snake and he laughs and leaves the room. She then gets up and closes the doors with hesitation, now afraid to touch the handles. She closes them and shakes her head, going to her bed.

'That was a portal to fey. How could that be a portal to fey."  I ask myself, now confused too. Suddenly it hits me why the changeling kept trying to go through the doors, it wants to go back to fey. 'This is not good. Father cannot know about this, especially not the part about Asher."


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