Book Eight: Chapter 186

Sofia seemed surprised to hear this and leaned against the closest wall. “What happened?” she asked.

Mike repeated the vision he had, and spoke at length to how real it felt. When he was done, he looked at the cyclops to see a knowing look on her face. “It felt like I died,” he said. “The pain was so real.”

“It always is,” she replied. “If the future didn’t feel real, you wouldn’t work so hard to avoid it.”

“Is there any way to avoid that?” he asked.

Sofia shook her head. “I have no idea why you’re suddenly having these visions, but no, there isn’t. They happen in the span of a single breath, sometimes many of them. I have died many, many thousands of times and it fails to get any better.”

“Damn,” Mike muttered. The ability itself was helpful, but he had struggled with nightmares about it last night. “As for why it happened, I think I know.”

“Enlighten me.”

“You and I had a threesome with Cecilia in Avalon,” he said. “We fucked in Fae territ