Chapter 24
It was dark and cold.
Madeline ran along a dark space that felt like a tunnel, judging by the stilted echo of her own footsteps. The air felt hollow. There was no wind. No light. Nothing that suggested she would soon reach the other end of the tunnel, or that running forward toward the unknown was a better option than returning to where she was running from.
It was too dark for her to even see her own body. But she had a strange feeling that she was running in bare feet. She mightn’t even have any clothes on. She wasn’t sure. She wanted to stop and take inventory, but her body didn’t want to obey her.
Suddenly the air lightened. Hundreds of glowing insects and butterflies flooded the air, emitting a shimmering shade of light. She stopped running and looked around. She was de
