CHAPTER THIRTY † SUBCONSCIOUSSAMRAH’S VOICE, SHAKIER than when we’d started, pulled me from the
dark tunnel. Like a reverse bungee cord effect. I had no concept of time as I returned to the surface of my consciousness. We might have been at this for minutes or it might have been hours.
“You’re relaxed,” Samrah said. “You’re in complete control. You’re slowly becoming aware of your body again.” The doubt in her voice worried me. Was
that fear I heard? She wasn’t a hundred percent calm anymore. My brow furrowed. The fact that I could feel my eyebrows coming together meant I was close. “Feel your awareness return in
your toes, up your calves to your thighs. Inhale and feel your abdomen and lungs inflate and deflate when you exhale. You’re up to your shoulders now. Keep going until you rea
