HAZEL'S POVWe were all just standing around, doing absolutely nothing, while waiting for Zander and the others to come back, and somehow that nothing turned into chaos anyway. Carson was busy being Carson, which meant he had planted himself directly in front of the fairy queen and was asking her a never-ending string of deeply inappropriate, wildly invasive, and completely unnecessary questions, most of which made no sense even by his standards. I tried to tune him out, because if I focused on my beta for even one more second, I was going to lose what little patience I had left.Instead, I focused on the feeling sitting heavy in the pit of my stomach, because something about this whole plan felt off. Everyone else seemed convinced it would work out just fine, but my instincts were screaming at me that we were missing something important, and I hated that feeling more than anything.Cedella was humming a soft tune while gently coaxing Tia into grabbing some sleep, her voice steady and
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