CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO worlds, Case fought as never before. With each second, the Gray Lands grew clearer in her vision while the hospital room where she was in the real world faded. Real? What was real? As the Gray Lands solidified around her, she struggled to remember. wasNo. This gray nightmare wasn’t real. She seized onto a single thought, the one thing she knew. Her body—her body—was in that hospital room. And she had to get it back before her connection to that room, that world, that body disappeared. Disappeared forever behind the gray mist that every second grew thicker around her. knewherThrough that mist, Case watched as her body walked around the room. Her body, picking things up with her fingers, holding them up to her face. Herherher“Interesting,” her mouth said. Marell’s word

