Chapter 11
I pedaled hard. I was running way early, but it didn’t matter. All the better to keep an eye on Cray, make sure he didn’t chicken out. Starren had quite a hold over him. The portal let me through on my own again.
This morning I had left the house before Dan or Nina had noticed I was awake, slipping out the door, invisible to human eyes. We hadn’t fought the night before. They were past being mad. Now all Nina showed me was the pain that I wouldn’t trust her with where I was sneaking off to. But I couldn’t. The tiny part of me that kept whispering I should tell them what was going on was easily squashed. What if they didn’t believe me? Or worse, what if they did, and thought I was a freak? Better to keep things the way they were.
Cumat looked up from where he stood part way do
