Iris sighed again, staring at where her little sister had been sitting on the floor for the last four hours. Her eyes were closed as if she was sleeping, but her eyelids moved rapidly and her fingers twitched occasionally, which could only mean she was inside her own little world—the one she shared with Etheera.
At first, everyone in the corridor was excited by their presence and kept talking about Annabel and what she had said. The little girl with the superhero costume even went and sat next to her, talking for a few minutes, but when Annabel didn’t reply, she went back to her parents. Soon after, the others calmed down too, but then the worst thing happened.
Their parents returned to find that not only Annabel had given up her room, but she was talking to the person responsible for he
