Sapphire sat at the edge of a trickling pond and let the rushing water move over her feet. She’d been in and out of more doors than she had thought possible but now she was where she was supposed to be. She knew her parents and her grandparents would never think to find her here. It was too close to home.
“It was home,” she thought wryly. She had gone from doorway to doorway, leaving a complicated and confusing mess ensuring nobody would find her and she was of all places on Fairley Isle in her own chalet on the southern-most tip of the island, nestled in the mountains. She loved it here. It would have been too hard for her to leave it forever.
She was in a place of complete seclusion, easy for her to remain hidden. She had masked her blood-ties with her family but knowing she was so clo
