Book Four: Chapter 198

The queen vanished, gobbled up by the dream. Lily slammed the door and summoned a large key to lock it shut.

“Can’t she just break out of there?” Mike asked while stepping out of the fountain. His body solidified, and the others vanished from sight, except for Lily.

“Oh, she’s having a very bad time right now.” Lily smirked. “Wanna see?”

“I’m not going in there,” he told her. His sudden reversal of fortune was too good to pass up.

“You don’t have to go in there. This is all inside your head, remember? You just have to want to see it. Here, I’ll show you.” Lily extended her hand and Mike took it.

The home and the beach vanished, and he found himself back in the court of the faerie queen. Convinced he had woken up, his first clue that he was still asleep was that the court was in black and white. As he looked around, he saw that there were two thrones now instead of one.

“The humans need to be made to understand,” said an elegant man with six wings