“And then...the magic,” said Daxton gleefully. Silently the screen exploded into flashes of white and fire, and then everything went black.
That was it. No sound effects. No screams. No indication that tens of thousands of people had just died. Just silence and a blank screen.
Elsewhere was gone.
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That night, I stared into the empty darkness, certain I would never be able to sleep again. Though Greyson had given me something to relax, it hadn’t stopped the image of Elsewhere burning playing in a continuous loop in my mind.
It was only after I’d cried myself out and pretended to be asleep that Greyson had finally passed out on the sofa bed. As he snored, I quietly slipped out of bed and padded to the adjoining bathroom, where I shut the door and turned on the sink to drown out
