Minerva called Micah and told him to retrieve my car and stuff from Mother"s house. I could hear him grumbling, but he complied and got most of it. I"d have to go back for a couple of things I"d had hanging in the closet, but otherwise it was fine. He arrived about an hour later, during which I"d taken a nap in one of Minerva and Karen"s guest rooms. I hadn"t realized just how tired all the morning"s activities and excitement had made me, and it frustrated me. If I were to go into Faerie, especially hauling a heavy apparatus, how long could I realistically last?
Micah didn"t come alone. Mother emerged from the passenger side of the car, and I could tell from the stern lines of her jaw and lips that she wasn"t happy.
Minerva took my stuff up to the room I"d be staying in, and once she ret
