Chapter 14

Maya looked down at her hands and jolted. She was just a ghost of herself as well. She couldn’t exactly see through her hands, but it was close. They had a hazy outline to them. She wasn’t solid any longer.

“Where are we?” Maya finally managed to get out. Fear coated her words.

We are on the spiritual plane. He hesitated, as if in incomprehension. You pulled us both through.

“I did?” she asked. “How?”

That I do not know.

“Scales,” she whispered. “What do I do? How do I get us out? Is this normal?”

We will assess how to get out when it is time to depart. Gelryn paused over her other questions. This has never happened before.

He said it like an admission.

They were silent at that realization. Maya had done something that no one else had ever done before. That Gelryn knew of at least. All because she had been too stubborn to let go? Or was there another reason?

“Why did this happen?”

Truly, Maya of the House of Dragons, I do not know.

She was stunned. “You have never entered the spiritua