Chapter 104Before it happened, Jonah was watching Genghis fight Arthur, James, and Thomas. Jonah wished he could do something to help, but he knew he'd be dead in a heartbeat if he got involved.
Hearing a scraping sound from above, Jonah looked up at the ceiling...and he saw the middle circle iris open. For an instant, the hole in the ceiling was dark, and then a bright golden light flared out of it.
Mesmerized, Jonah continued to watch, expecting to see the ceiling open wider. Expecting a gateway leading to another world, a heavenly plane of existence.
But instead of opening wide to admit visitors, the hole stayed just big enough for something to slide through from the other side. Something strange and dazzling.
It was a cylinder of radiant amber, a crystalline tube shedding rays
