AMONG“But wherever we end up, this time we’ll be there together.”
Victory kept watch. No security guards poured through the door. Rubin’s breath roared in her ears, but his body showed no movement.
Without warning, the same mysterious force jerked her away through a gray void. She squeezed Toria’s hand, solid within her own. The stillness pressed in, like invisible hands grasping at her clothing and limbs.
The silence screamed in her ears. The voices she’d heard in the shadows the first time coalesced into words. Not Loquella, not Qin, nor any of the other languages she’d learned and forgotten over her lifetime. But she understood nonetheless.
One comes.
We know this one.
One is too early.
She couldn’t move, else she’d have clawed at her ears to force out the voices.
One does not k
