Chapter Twelve
By that point, I was almost used to the flash of white light and the abrupt change in scenery that it heralded. What I couldn’t have possibly been prepared for was the world we emerged in this time.
We stood in the open air, in a large outdoor space with two stately rows of white columns that marched their way toward a tall building topped by multiple domes, all done in some sort of metallic finish that echoed the same pale, blue-white hue of the sunlight streaming around us. On either side of the columns were narrow ribbons of still, blue-green water, framing a walkway that led directly to the tall doors in the front of the building. The air was soft against my skin, not cool, not warm, but some ideal balance that probably would have put it around seventy-two degrees Fahr
