“Why are you showing me this?”
I looked up at the Queen after I had finished speaking, feeling like I needed to be watching her face it there were any hopes of me being able to see if she had plans of lying to me. I was hoping that I would be able to tell by her facial expression whether or not she chose to tell me the truth, chose to tell me the real reason as to why she was showing me this.
“Because you’re the only other person who might understand that it’s not supposed to look like this.”
My eyes dropped to the portal once more, and I couldn’t help but feel like I was being drawn to it, like it was calling me. The water seemed to swirl, to come to life, moving from one corner to the other, and I knew for a fact that it hadn’t done that before—at le
