“Wait,” Amberly called, her concentration wavering from holding up the water around them. “We’re actually going to go across to the other side? Right now? Don’t we need to… I don’t know, tell our parents? Leave a note or something in case we’re gone for a while?” It was like entering the portal was the very last thing she wanted to do. Charlie hadn’t even considered what Amberly was saying before she agreed to cross over into a different What if they got stuck over on the other side? What if something happened to them while they were trying to defeat more of Yash’s minions? What if time in other realms worked like it did in space, and one hour on the other side was equivalent to five years on Earth? Their parents wouldn’t know anything about it. Nobody at the school would know where they

