A mist fell over the scene, cutting off the rest of her words. Case’s stomach lurched as if she was falling. The mist cleared. Rani and the girl still sat before her in the jungle.
“It didn’t work,” Case said. “We’ll have to…” She looked around. “Oh.”
She stood in the same corridor of doors where she and Will had found Fader sleeping after escaping the Crystal Island.
The same, but different. As Fader had described, the wall of doors lay behind them, each door showing only blackness. The wall they faced, blank on her first visit, now displayed the jungle scene they’d just left.
Fader grinned up at her. “Superpowers!”
She forced a smile, still trying to calm her stomach. “Okay, but how do we get back?”
“Step into the wall. You’ll walk right through it. Wanna go back?”
She considered
