I found myself spluttering, coughing as I pulled myself onto the shore of Atlantan soil. I could barely believe that I had survived the journey, that I hadn’t passed out from exhaustion as I had last time. Of course, I had survived the trip back to the Mainland, and therefore, it would have been of no surprise to me to find myself conscious.
My heart was beating quite thoroughly in my chest, which I guessed to be something that I would be able to blame on the adrenaline that was pumping through my veins, on the apprehension that I was doing my very best to oppress. I knew that I was failing miserably, but there wasn’t much more that I could do.
There was a part of me that suspected that Dae and his entourage was not as far behind me as I would have liked, but there was nothing that I c
