The Familiars #4: Palace Of Dreams - Plot & Excerpts
For starters it was hovering inside an enormous glass ball, and snowflakes were falling all around it. Stranger still, desert stretched for miles outside the glass. Aldwyn was at the foot of a long staircase that rose halfway toward the bedroom window of the queen. Loranella herself stood at the balcony, her hair floating above her head as if she were underwater. Aldwyn bounded from step to step, desperately trying to reach her. She called out to him, but no sound left her lips. The words only came out in letters that blew away like torn pages from a book. Aldwyn shot awake and discovered that he was lying under the oak tree in the heart of the forest that hid the Smuggler’s Trail. Skylar and Gilbert were sitting beside him. “You dozed off,” Skylar said. “We should go,” Aldwyn said with extra urgency. The queen’s plight was weighing heavily on him. “What about lunch?” Gilbert asked. “We don’t have time for any more chores,” Aldwyn replied. “I worry that we haven’t waited long enough for our pursuers to pass,”
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