We all stop an inch from the floor before falling with loud thumps and groans all around. Scrambling to our feet and my eyes lock onto the Veil. My eyes scan it briefly trying to rectify what I've read with what I see. They say it's a portal to the realm of the dead. that stepping through kills a person. They were wrong. Oh so wrong. The just needed the context I do and they'd understand, as four voices in the back of my mind say "home" I understand what I'm looking at. This isn't a portal to the real of the dead it's a portal to the Fay realm. The only reason people say you die when you step through is because no one ever has come out which would make sense if you read tales of people stepping into the realm of the fay but for a moment and when they step outside empires have turned to dust and civilizations have risen and fell in that one moment.