Sabrina did not answer immediately. Vale's question may sound simple, but it would reveal a lot of things about her…
"How did I get here?" she repeated softly, as she considered her answer.
Vale was not asking about the shadow spell she had used to slip past his detection, nor the way she had cloaked her presence to appear beside him in this shuttered coffee shop…
What he wanted to know was how she had crossed realms, how she had left the Shadow Realm and arrived here, in the human realm.
Of course, she could not reveal the truth. She could not admit that she had traced his movements, even though Vale had been protected by Shadowlord Kilo, Sky Immortal Kaela's father, and the Note City Lord. Even with all the barriers and concealment arrays they used, she had used a forbidden technique, one that allowed her to sense the faint ripples of Vale's disappearance from the Shadow Realm.
She had followed those traces, recording every fragment of his dimensional travel.
