A routine magical experiment in Ruhn Danaan’s apartment goes catastrophically wrong when a portal to another world stabilizes for the first time instead of collapsing. What begins as an attempt to maintain a fragile, long-distance connection with Prythian becomes a fully opened rift—allowing the Fae Aux team to see and be seen by the powerful and suspicious Inner Circle of the Night Court. As both sides make first contact, trust becomes immediately fragile, and the implications of inter-world travel reveal dangers far greater than either realm anticipated.