“I wanted to say more,” Fader said. “But when I tried, I couldn’t. It was like…” He shrugged.
wanted“Like something was stopping you,” Will finished for him.
Case had felt it, too. A sudden fear whenever she’d mentioned the Chakana. “One guess what that something was. I had to fight to tell as much as I did. And fight to put it into the box.”
something“The moment it was locked up again,” Will said. “I felt a change. As if something had been watching me before, and now…” He shrugged. “And now it’s blind again.”
Case shivered. “We’re talking as if it’s alive.”
“More than alive. Self-aware. Intelligent,” Will said. He related his strange astral journey into the Chakana itself and how Jack pulled him out.
Case stared at him, her fear of the crystal key growing even more. “I can’t believe
