Hardly a minute later, the sky appeared light blue over a stretch of land with clovers and grass. Manicured bushes of white roses led to large marble gates. I had forgotten not to expect ruins; this was ‘wildly’ different from what I had seen before. All that remained similar was the whipped-cream diamond spires with gold fixtures.
I couldn’t get over that the sky was blue here and that the sun was yellow. The return of the Ivory Kingdom somehow brought full daytime back to this world.
Unsure where to pull up while being sneaky, we figured there was no way to be sneaky about this; someone had to let us in, or we had to explode our way in.
Donovan drove us to the southern gate, where we would meet Queen Autumn and King Russell. I felt oddly nervous about meeting them in person. There were so many more things to be nervous about - ‘why’ was there still room for this in my anxiety radar?