Bridget dipped her toes into the water off the side of the dock. "I didn't know this would happen," she confided in Stillwater. "When it started, while I was driving, when the song was repeating… I knew something would go down. But I had no idea… This is not what I was expecting."
"If you had known, would you have done it?"
"No," said Bridget.
"The effects will ripple out. This is just the beginning. Tell me what you did that night."
"I let myself be seen. I felt the pain of the Earth and spirits and humans. I let them see me," Bridget recalled.
"The most amazing thing about it," Stillwater started, "Is that you did it without a ritual or a ceremony. It's hard to believe you tore the veil without a spell."
"I… tore the veil..."
"Of course you did. That's how Nova was able to leave the Grove and enter the Seen."
"He's in the Seen?"
"Of course, Darling. What did you think happened to him?"