CHAPTER SIX
My mother didn't answer the wand summons, and as per usual, it didn't unlock the portal into Faerie for me, no matter how hard I tried. I don't know why I was so desperate. Perhaps I didn't want to leave Sir Raleigh even more than I realized. Indeed, my heart hurt with a twin ache - over my exile and over the thought of abandoning him - when the car dropped me at Veronica's shop the next morning.
Sir Raleigh's eyes had turned fully from blue to yellow with green rings around the irises, and he seemed to have gained a pound and some length. His ears also appeared to have decided to outpace the rest of him. Veronica almost didn't recognize him.
"Is that the same kitten?" she asked. "He's growing much faster than his siblings."
I told her the observations others had made of hi
