FADER SAT SLUMPED beside the elevator on Adi’s floor. The same elevator Case, Will, and Stone had taken, leaving him behind, ignoring him like he wasn’t here.
A horrible thought seized him. Maybe he wasn’t here. Maybe he was a ghost. Maybe he’d left his body, like Yeshe used to do. He pinched his arm hard, then grimaced. Ow.
wasn’tNo. He was fading. Fading more than ever before. He shivered. What if he kept fading? Kept going until he was no longer part of this world?
A man and a woman passed where he sat huddled, paying him no notice. They were talking but their voices sounded muffled, distant. He looked up and down the hall. Did everything look fuzzier than before?
He stood. Yes. Yes, it did. And not just fuzzier, but duller, as if someone had thrown a thin hood over his head, coveri
