Free Bridge of Dreams by Anne Bishop

else.”
    “Where would he go?” Yoshani asked.
    “Somewhere I can’t.” She swallowed tears. “I need to return to the Island in the Mist and leave a message for Michael. Then I need to get messages to Sebastian and my mother. Will you help me?”
    He let out a pained sigh as he started to rise. “Yes, of course.” He froze, then sank back down. “Your mother’s landscapes are held protected within your garden. And so are Michael’s.”
    “Yes.”
    “If Lee no longer resonates with your landscapes, he won’t be able to reach theirs either, won’t be able to reach Sebastian in the Den or Nadia in Aurora.”
    “No. He won’t.”
    “What about Caitlin Marie’s landscapes?”
    “Her garden isn’t held within my garden, so he should be able to cross over to her landscapes if he wants to.”
    Yoshani bowed his head. “But he won’t.”
    “No, he won’t.”
    “Then he’s left all of you.”
    Because of me
, she thought.
He left everyone he knew because of me.
    “Come away,” Yoshani said, rising to his feet. “We’ll take the pack and store it in his room at the guesthouse. Unless you think he’ll call the island to him and would want the pack?”
    She rose, wishing they’d had one more of those silly sibling quarrels so that she could smile about it when she thought of him. “Lee can’t call the island. It doesn’t belong to him anymore.”

Chapter 6
     
     
    F riends and family gathered at Philo’s Place in the Den, using the indoor dining room for this private meeting. Glorianna wasn’t sure why she’d chosen the Den instead of Nadia’s house in Aurora. Maybe because she needed to say these words in a landscape that was hers instead of one held by her mother?
    She and Yoshani had left a message for Michael where he would find it the moment he returned from Foggy Downs, the village that was first on his list to visit. After leaving a message at Nadia’s house, she and Yoshani had gone to the Den.
    She had created this landscape for Sebastian when they were fifteen years old. He had needed a place where he would feel welcome, would feel at home. She had taken a dark piece of a city and reshaped it into this carnal carnival out of the wants and dreams and needs of the young incubus Sebastian had been.
    The Den and the man had changed over the years, had matured. Had almost parted ways. In fact, she had almost lost her cousin when he’d been captured and taken to Wizard City, but he was still here. She needed toremember that a person could find his way home if his heart still belonged to a place or the people who waited for him there.
    She managed to remain seated until Teaser walked into the room and grinned at her.
    “Hey-a, Glorianna. I wanted to tell you—”
    “Not now, Teaser,” Yoshani said quietly.
    Glorianna pushed away from the table and began to pace. Being a Guide didn’t make her any less unhappy as a sister.
    Teaser looked from one to the other, his grin fading. “Has something happened?”
    “Yes,” Yoshani replied, “but let’s wait for everyone to arrive before we discuss it.”
    “Daylight,” Teaser muttered. “I’ll go see what Philo has to drink.” He walked through the door that led to the kitchen.
    Before he returned, Sebastian’s wife, Lynnea, entered the dining room. “Glorianna! It’s wonderful to see you here.”
    “No, it’s not,” Teaser said as he swung back into the room with a tray full of bottles and glasses. “Well, it is, but she’s not here to play cards with the bull demons and win a jar of olives.”
    “You play for olives?” Yoshani asked.
    “
I
play for money most of the time, but Philo will trade meals for jars of olives or olive oil, so…” Teaser shrugged.
    “Is something wrong?” Lynnea asked. “Where is Michael?”
    “Foggy Downs,” Glorianna replied. “I left a message for him to meet us here, but we won’t wait for him.”
    She saw the alarm in Lynnea’s blue eyes, but before Lynnea could ask any questions,