The Playboy's One-Way Ticket to Moray

"Did you bring one back?" My mom, Siobhan, urged. I pushed my half-empty mug to the center of the cafe table. The campus buzzed around me, students stressing over minor things like finals. "I’m still at school, Mom." "The Summer Solstice is in exactly one month, Maeve." The line crackled. "If you cross that water empty-handed, Finn is going to the pens. Are you going to let your own brother be taken?"