“The mortal and fae worlds move at different speeds,” Esmee told them. “I like to use the analogy of dropping two downy feathers from a cliff at the same moment. They’ll drift to the ground at varying rates of speed depending on air currents and by the chance of how they tumble. But one will always land later and farther from the other. If you drop them again, they will fall in an entirely different pattern. It’s impossible to predict their paths. Time falls in the same way, but there are two times a year when mortal and fae timelines are in sync—Samhain and Beltane—which you might know in the
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