Elizabeth returned with her son to the bedroom and took from her wardrobe another dress. Laying her new son on the bed, she pulled the dress over her ...ead and buttoned the tight fitting bodice to her neck. She took a woolen shawl and wrapped around her and hooked the bone fastener in front to keep it from slipping from her shoulders. Dressed once more, she looked at her son with a look of love only a mother will know.Elizabeth took two pieces of soft cloth from a small chest near her wardrobe. It was wonderful to be back.Spirits danced through the air. The small balls of light—red, blue, green, purple, yellow, and orange—darted or drifted around me. They were everywhere. In the mortal world, they hid in objects, only appearing when I needed them. But not here in Faerie. They came from here. With them, my ancestors had created this world for us to live in.A ball of red light, a conjuration spirit, surged up to me, brushing my lips in welcome. A tingle of energy raced through me. I. Is no dream?"Thule nodded, "I made you some coffee if you think you can handle it. The bathroom is right back there if you need to be sick..."Svetlana sat up abruptly, "I never get..." She laid back slowly, her pallor noticeably greener, "... sick from drinking," she added weakly."You were also drugged," said Thule."Da," said Svetlana, shaking her head as she rose much more gingerly this time, "the boy, Ian, who raped me." She said it rather matter-of-factly.Thule turned his back to her and. How does he get away with that?” Greg complained.“You remember what that guy said, at that house on the corner?”Greg did, ‘They walk around with their daughters in the open. My wife says she thinks they’ve been grooming them. I’m not sure about all that but I heard just the other day that one of my neighbors, he thinks his co-worker went on a weekend skiing trip with one of the students from the high school. She was only sixteen. They went alone. Bet him and his wife had some words.’ Greg had.