“How did you come to our world?” Nali curiously asked.
Ross carefully scanned the walls of the narrow canyon as they walked. “Damned if I know,” he responded.
He’d learned his lesson well and was not going to mention his encounters with Magna any more than he had to. From Gem’s reaction, it wasn’t hard to deduce that Magna wasn’t very popular in this world. Turning people into stone and creating deadly traps would do that. Still, it was hard to reconcile the things he was learning about her past with the woman he had met back home.
“One minute I’m on my boat, the next I’m swimming for my life. I ended up on the beach here, found Gem, and we’ve been fighting to stay alive ever since,” he said with a shrug.
“Interesting,” Nali commented with a speculative expression.
“So, Orion is a mer
