I stumbled and righted myself. Spinning, I looked for the portal, but it was gone. There was nothing but a thick gray fog.
Panic threatened to choke me, but I pushed it down. I’d been here before with Conlan, which meant it had to be a part of Faerie. And he’d created a portal out of here, so I could, too.
I still had the stone in my hand, so I did exactly what I’d done to create my first portal. It was much easier to connect to the magic from this side of the barrier, and an outline of a portal began to appear. I imagined the parking lot behind Lukas’s building. I could do this.
“Jesse.”
I spun around at the woman’s voice, but all I saw was fog. Thinking I had imagined it, I returned my focus to the portal. It grew as big as a door, and I could make out the faint shape of a building o
