“Good luck to any scientists trying to explain this,” Perry says. “No wonder people are taking about aliens and parallel worlds and the apocalypse.”
I swallow and clear my throat before asking, “Do you know if there were people inside this house?”
“Yes. Sadly, there were. Apparently there were people inside all the houses that have vanished.”
I breathe deeply against the rising nausea. “If my Griffin Ability had just been ready a few seconds earlier, I could have saved this house, this family. I could have—”
“Don’t.” Calla grips my arm. “Don’t even start that. You didn’t do this. You stopped it from happening to every other house in this town. Okay?” Though I can’t push the nausea down completely, I nod. I know she’s right, even though it feels like I should have done more.
I hear a f
