The red lights roamed behind Fae Academy, creating a sparkling aurora of mass proportions. Dawn was about to break, which meant the fairies were still sound asleep in their dorms, lounging on puffy dandelion beds. I was wide awake, as I had been yesterday and the day before and every single day since I came into this hellhole because my faerie stepfather married my mortal mother. They got hitched after their second date, but who was I to judge?