Rowan: “The higher plane is a place that exists beyond the light; its darkness is said to hold nothing but nightmares for those who enter. I guess no one really knows what dwells there, of course. No one has ever been there and survived, but it is told that long ago, the giants that existed there would leave the higher plane and come into the kingdom to feast on the flesh of the shifters that dwelled there. The place was closed away from the kingdoms long before they were split, and no one has ever been powerful or brave enough to reopen the plane.” We all sat quietly listening as Lucian told us what my future might hold if the Court found a way to banish me. “But there isn’t any way they can send me there… right?” I asked as we all left the dinner table, retiring to the living area to c