Chapter Thirty-Four
We jump out on the other side and keep running. All I register at first is that the grass under my feet is green, and the sky has a yellow tint to it.
Then I see a purple gate—our destination—in the distance and realize that this hub is huge, with gates spread far apart. Luckily, each stride makes me fly through the air as though the suit’s usual assistance has doubled in power.
“Weaker gravity here,” Felix says as he takes giant leaps beside me.
“Shut up and keep running for that gate,” Ariel says. “Gnomes are Cognizant and just as capable of traversing the gates as each of us.”
“Except they didn’t follow us,” Itzel says, glancing over her shoulder. “I wonder why?”
I slow down and glance around.
The hub appears to be in a giant meadow, with a lush forest surroun
